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Why is this happening?
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In a script I'm working on, I have a line of code that fires after it confirms a value inside a Frame exists. Here's the line of code:
repeat wait() until script.Parent.Value
-- code here
The problem, though, is that even when it checks if it's not nil, the script breaks. The output reads:
:1:Value is not a valid member of Frame
Also, putting something like:
local value = script.Parent:findFirstChild("Value")
repeat wait() until value
just puts the script in an infinite loop, even if the value isn't nil. Can somebody please explain why the script is breaking?
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Your loop doesn't change the variable value, so if value was nil at the beginning, it will always be loop forever after.
repeat
wait()
until script.Parent:FindFirstChild("Value")
Conveniently, ROBLOX provides a :WaitForChild method that acts like :FindFirstChild except that it will pause until there actually is such an object, hence
thevalue = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Value")
should suffice.