Error: Attempt to index local 'player' (a nil value) HELP! (?)
I'm trying to modify some gui texts through a normal script located in workspace but when I test it i got the error: Attempt to index local 'player' (a nil value). I know this would not happen if i use a script inside the gui and put that Player = script.Parent.Parent.Parent but for some reasons i don't want to do it that way. Here's how the code looks like:
player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
PlyrGui = player.PlayerGui -- Here is the error ('player' (a nil value) )
Gui1 = PlyrGui:WaitForChild("Menu1")
function Action1()
-- Imagine here is all the funciton. lol
end
game.Players.ChildAdded:connect(Action1)
How I can make the computer find the player so then it can find the playerGui? Please help
1 answer
This will not work, since only LocalScripts have access to LocalPlayer.
But, a much better function to use to fix this would be:
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
local PlyrGui = player.PlayerGui
local Gui1 = PlyrGui:WaitForChild("Menu1")
-- code
end)
EDIT: Using a function, not just when a player spawned.
To do this, a script like this would be helpful:
function editGui(player,objectName,screenGuiName,text) -- player, objectName (name of the object you're looking for), screenGuiName (ScreenGui that is an ancestor of object)
local gui = player.PlayerGui:FindFirstchild(screenGuiName)
if gui then
local obj = gui:FindFirstChild(objectName,true) -- the second parameter is whether it will search through descendants, instead of children (descendants includes children).
if obj then
obj.Text = text
end
end
end
If you want this to happen to all players at the same time, change the playerAdded function to this:
local players = {} -- put this on Line 1 of script
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
players:insert(player)
end)
game.Players.PlayerRemoving:connect(function(player)
players:remove(player)
end)
for _,v in pairs (players) do
editGui(v,"MenuText1","Menu1","HELLO!") -- looks for an object named "MenuText1", inside "Menu1", which is inside the player's playerGui, and changes it's text to "HELLO!"
end
Hope I helped :)
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