Is it possible for Data Stores to be checked in other scripts?
Honestly, i'm still having trouble with these darned Data Stores,
THIS IS A NORMAL SCRIPT WITHIN A GUI
Usually, how it works, when you leave the game, it's supposed to save the colors of the morph When you come back, if you've saved anything, it would change the gui's text to "LOAD" and it would lead you to a Continue screen
However, even if i did save, it still doesnt show as anything.
Either it doesnt save, something's gone wrong, or i wrote this script wrong:
And this may sound silly too, since it's one of the less harder scripts.
( Here is the save script: https://scriptinghelpers.org/questions/22446/why-wont-this-script-work )
( Also how do you activate a Localscript within a normal script? Just a quick question)
Sorry if i've been bothing anyone here with these scripts only relating to Data Stores, i've been working on this for awhile, and i want to get this done ASAP!
local DataStore = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("NicuWolfSlot1")
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
local viewkey = "Colorsfor"..player.userId
local Savedstuff = DataStore:GetAsync(viewkey)
if Savedstuff then
script.Parent.Text="Load"
end
end)
script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:connect(function(player)
local viewkey = "Colorsfor"..player.userId
local Savedstuff = DataStore:GetAsync(viewkey)
if Savedstuff then
script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Continue.Visible = true
script.Parent.Parent.Visible = false
print ("It's okay den")
else
print ("Nothing here!")
return
end
end)
1 answer
ROBLOX's data store system is very dynamic. There are a lot of things you can, and can't do. Here are a few:
Saving
Now, It's important to know that when using data store, we're storing information outside of ROBLOX servers. Meaning anything specific to ROBLOX Lua, will be considered non-existent (or in Lua terms, "nil"). A few examples of data that cannot be compiled to data store, are these:
1: userdatas (i.e, Instances, Vector3.new, CFrame.new, BrickColor.new, etc)
2: functions
3: mixed table dictionaries / arrays (these may not break, but will not save properly. Single style tables save just fine).
Choices
This basically leaves you with the following choices of data to be saved:
- Numbers
- Tables (of specific record style)
- Strings (most commonly used)
- Booleans
And of course, a nil value.
Solution
So, with the above choices we have, we can make a function that converts incomprehensible data to something ROBLOX Lua understands. Here's a small example of how this could work:
local data = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("Testing")
data:SetAsync("ColorTest","blue") -- 'blue' being our color key
-- A dictionary of what we can compare our saved key to
local Colors = {
['red'] = Color3.new(1,0,0),
['green'] = Color3.new(0,1,0),
['blue'] = Color3.new(0,0,1),
}
-- Get the saved key from the Colors table
local SavedColor = Colors[data:GetAsync("ColorTest")]
-- Print it
print(SavedColor)
Hope this helped. Let me know if you have any questions.