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Chat Gui Simplification?

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LostPast 253 Moderation Voter
9 years ago

I was wondering if there was a way to simplify and shorten this code so that it is easier to edit and use.

function UpdateOldLabels(Parent)
    for i,v in pairs(Parent:GetChildren()) do
        if v.Name:sub(1,4):lower() == "line" then
            local LineNumber = v.Name:sub(5)
            if LineNumber == "12" then
                v:Destroy()
            else
                v.Name = "line"..tostring(tonumber(LineNumber) + 1)
                v.Position = v.Position - UDim2.new(0,0,0,15)
            end
        end
    end
end

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
    player.Chatted:connect(function(msg)
        for _,v in ipairs(game:GetService("Players"):GetChildren()) do
            UpdateOldLabels(v:WaitForChild("PlayerGui").ScreenGui.Frame)
            newchatline = Instance.new("TextLabel",v:WaitForChild("PlayerGui").ScreenGui.Frame)
            newchatline.Text = player.Name.. ": " ..msg
            newchatline.Size = UDim2.new(1,0,0,15)
            newchatline.Position = UDim2.new(0,0,1,-15)
            newchatline.Font = "SourceSansBold"
            newchatline.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1,1,1)
            newchatline.TextStrokeTransparency = 0
            newchatline.BackgroundTransparency = 1
            newchatline.BorderSizePixel = 0
            newchatline.FontSize = "Size14"
            newchatline.TextXAlignment = "Left"
            newchatline.TextYAlignment = "Top"
            newchatline.ClipsDescendants = true
            newchatline.Name = "line1"
        end
        UpdateOldLabels(game:GetService("StarterGui").ScreenGui.Frame)
        newchatline:Clone().Parent = game:GetService("StarterGui").ScreenGui.Frame
    end)
end)

Thank you for your help!

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Answered by 9 years ago

You can always clone a gui element you already made and just change the text and position of it, line 19-32 will become around 3 lines if you do that, other than that I don't see anything else you can do to shorten it

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