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Return Event ID from triggerLatentClient/ServerEvent #3998

@Xenius97

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@Xenius97

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently, triggerLatentClientEvent and triggerLatentServerEvent only return true, making it impossible to directly obtain the event ID. As a workaround, developers must compare the list of active latent events before and after calling triggerLatentClientEvent, which is inefficient.

local currentEvents = {}
for _, eventID in pairs(getLatentEventHandles(player)) do
    currentEvents[eventID] = true
end

triggerLatentClientEvent(player, "openImage", 2500000, false, player, imageData)

for _, eventID in pairs(getLatentEventHandles(player)) do
    if not currentEvents[eventID] then
        openedImages[player].latentEvent = eventID
        break
    end
end

This extra logic is unnecessary when the function could simply return the event ID directly.

Describe the solution you'd like

Modify triggerLatentClientEvent and triggerLatentServerEvent so that it returns the latent event ID instead of true.

local eventID = triggerLatentClientEvent(player, "openImage", 2500000, false, player, imageData)
if eventID then
    openedImages[player].latentEvent = eventID
end

Describe alternatives you've considered

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