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What's the difference between WaitForChild and FindFirstChild?
I'm a bit confused on each each of those means and what they're used for. Can anyone explain the differences of these two?
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FindFirstChild returns the child if it can find a child of the instance you call it on with a name equal to the string you provide.
1 | local child = instance:FindFirstChild("ChildName") |
If it can't find the child it returns nil
You can use instance.ChildName but this will error if ChildName is not a valid member of instance. To get around the error you use FindFirstChild with a if statement
1 | local child = instance:FindFirstChild("ChildName") |
2 | if child then --ensures child is not nil |
3 | print'child exists!' |
4 | end |
WaitForChild yields until it can find a child of the instance you called it on with a name equal to the string you provide
1 | local child = instance:WaitForChild("ChildName") |
2 | print'child now exists!' |
This is used if you want to yield code until a child exists
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Wow, thanks for the help! I'll be able to use them a bit more, Thanks! yoshi8080 445 — 9y
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No problem :D YellowoTide 1992 — 9y
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So Basics its in the name. UserOnly20Characters 890 — 9y