What am I doing wrong with this table?
This is my first attempt with tables. So I am trying to make a script that when a player is added with a name from a table, a GUI will be visible on that users screen.
This is what I have so far (does not work ):
local users = {"Player"}
local children = game.Players:GetChildren()
function test()
if children.Name == users then
children.PlayerGui.Test.Frame.Visible = true
else
children.PlayerGui.Test:Destroy()
end
end
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(test)
All help will be very much appreciated.
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2 answers
The GetChildren() method is a table of the children from it's represented container. So if I said model:GetChildren() that would be a table of the children within it.
Generic Loops can, technically, break down the table to elements by using for as it's iterator, and one of it's 'most' commonly used function, pairs(). This receives all the values and combines it into one value.
local children=game.Players:GetPlayers() -- or getchildren function test() for index, values in pairs(children) do values.PlayerGui.Test.Frame.Visible=true else values.PlayerGui.Test:Destroy() end end game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(test)
Edited
To make technical search if the player's name 'matches' any of the titles given in the array, we'd use, once again, a generic loop.
local names={"Player","Player1","Player2"}
function namecheck(player,names)
for index, value in pairs(names) do
if player.Name==value then
return true
end
return false
end
function test()
for _, values in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
if namecheck(values,names) then
values.PlayerGui.Test.Frame.Visible=true
else
values.PlayerGui.Test:Destroy()
end
end
end
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In line 4, you're checking if the player's name is equal to the whole table. What you want to do is check if the player's name is IN the table.
Here's a function that tells you if an element is in a table:
function find(tab, item)
for i,v in pairs(tab) do
if v == item then
return true
end
end
return false
end