[boylett]

Heres a little function which will display text for an amount of milliseconds and then destroy it for you.

pawn Code:

forward DestroyTextTimer(Text:text);

TimeTextForPlayer(playerid, Text:text, time)
{
  TextDrawShowForPlayer(playerid,text);
  SetTimerEx("DestroyTextTimer",time,0,"i",_:text); // _: from Simon
}

public DestroyTextTimer(Text:text)
{
  TextDrawDestroy(text);
}

Function: TimeTextForPlayer(playerid, Text:text, time).
text = the text you want to display
time = amount of time, in milliseconds

It will give you a tag mismatch warning because of the Text label on the variable, but it doesnt matter because in the end its still just an integer.

Example usage:

pawn Code:

new Text:text = TextDrawCreate(20.0, 300.0,"I like pie");
    TextDrawUseBox(text, 1);
    TextDrawBoxColor(text, 0x000000AA);
    TextDrawFont(text, 1);
    TextDrawSetShadow(text,0);
    TextDrawSetOutline(text,1);
    TextDrawBackgroundColor(text,0x000000FF);
    TextDrawColor(text,0xFFFFFFFF);
    TimeTextForPlayer(playerid,text,6000);

EDIT: thx Simon, updated.