My script is not changing stroke color, how do I fix this issue?
I was making a DarkRP game on Roblox which clearly isn't the most original idea, and when I wanted to make a halloween border thing for my GUI, it does not change color. This is what the code looks like:
local CurrentMonth = os.date("%m")
if CurrentMonth == 10 then
script.Parent.Stroke.Color = Color3.fromRGB(255,155,0)
end
Extra notes: 1. The script does not throw any errors. 2. The script is in the Frame object holding the UIStroke object.
1 answer
the issue your having is related to the CurrentMonth being a string, not a number.
you can simply fix this issue by calling the tonumber function on the CurrentMonth variable
tonumber changes a string '124' to a number 124 (keep in mind the function breaks if there is anything other than numbers in the string)
example:
local CurrentMonth = os.date("%m")
print(
type(CurrentMonth) -- returns the type of the variable
)
--> 'string'
print(
tonumber(CurrentMonth) -- returns the integer
)
--> 10
print(
type(
tonumber(CurrentMonth) -- returns the integer
)
)
--> number
tostring changes any object into a type (stringified), although i wont go into any deeper explanation of this.
to fix your issue, you have to do one quick change:
local CurrentMonth = tonumber(os.date("%m"))
if CurrentMonth == 10 then
script.Parent.Stroke.Color = Color3.fromRGB(255,155,0)
end
here is a resource linking to the developer API that can explain this ten times better than i have https://create.roblox.com/docs/scripting/luau/strings
hopefully this solves your problem :)
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