Removing Scoreboard

[bigdave003]

Is there any way to either disable the score board when you press I for all of the players? WGL5 for OFP blocked it out, could this be done with scripting or is this more to do with mods?
Cheers

[JasonO]

WGL5 was a full scale mod right?

They would have made it so their mod could have the option to disable it. Original ArmA does not support this as far as I know. You might be able to doing some close dialog command or something to remove it, but I don't think it will work.

[Phaeden]

ACE, WGL's successor, will also have this feature.

[Mr.Peanut]

Well Phaeden, how about a quick comment on how you plan to do this? Share and enjoy!

[Mandoble]

Just guessing.
Scoreboard, as any other display should hava a known IDD. Knowing this, you may run something like that in every client:

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//Remove scoreboard SQF, execute with execVM
whilte {true} do
{
   waitUntil {!isNull (findDisplay SCOREDISPLAYIDD)};
   (findDisplay SCOREDISPLAYIDD) closeDisplay 0;
   Sleep 0.5;
};

And how to detect display IDD SCOREDISPLAYIDD?
run this in a client and show the scoreboard

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_min = 0;
_max = 300;
while {true} do
{
   _msg = "";
   for [{_i = _min},{_i <= _max},{_i=_i+1}] do
   {
      _display = findDisplay _i;
      if ((!isNull _display)) then
      {
         _msg = _msg + format["%1: %2\n",_i, _display];     
      };
      hint format["Displays (%1 to %2):\n%3",_min,_max,_msg];
   };
   Sleep 2;
};

If no results with range between 0 and 300, increase it, between 300 and 600 and so on until you get scoreboard display IDD.

EDIT:
the following displays seems to exist all the time in an MP game: 0,8,12,17,46,70
the following displays seems to exist all the time in an SP game: 0,12,26,46
So I guess any of these may be the score display IDD: 8, 17 or 70

[h-]

Or, you probably can remove the whole scoreboard 'resource' from the game config..
I'm guessing this is the method WGL used instead of scripting
(in OFP the resources were in their own separate resource.cpp..)