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Filtering Enabled Problem: Allow newcomers to see changed TextLabel text?

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My problem in itself is pretty easy for others but is complicated for me. That's why it's hard to come up with the question.

The problem is I want the TextLabel's text which is shown to everyone to be changed by anyone's TextBox, and it was a success but I want also the new players to see their TextLabel change by the time they come in, for example: Player A types in "Testing" on the TextBox, which changes all of the existing players in the server, the default TextLabel text is named as "Blank". So the problem is I want the new players to see it changed to "Testing" instead of getting "Blank" when they come in the server.

The script below is the Server Side Script

-- Services
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Workspace = game:GetService("Workspace")
-- References
local reciever = ReplicatedStorage.Reciever

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function()
reciever.OnServerEvent:connect(function(player, args)
	local plr = player.Parent:GetChildren()
	for i = 1, #plr do
		plr[i].PlayerGui.Interface.Wrap_top.Reciever.Text = args
		wait()
		plr[i].PlayerGui.Interface.Wrap_bottom.Input.Text = ""
	end
end)
end)

I'm pretty sure the Local Script doesn't have any problems

-- Services
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Workspace = game:GetService("Workspace")
-- References
local reciever = ReplicatedStorage.Reciever

function onRecieve()
	reciever:FireServer(script.Parent.Text)
end

script.Parent.FocusLost:connect(onRecieve)

I tried doing methods like game.Players.PlayerAdded but not well executed, any suggestions?

Anonymous

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You're making this much more difficult than it needs to be. In the ServerScript for this sort of a chat, just update the StarterGui along with all the players' PlayerGuis. When a new player comes in, the client loads the Guis from StarterGui. This will also keep the message when a player dies. If you aren't sure what I mean, here's what I did to your script:

--No need to do any :GetService() functions or variables since we're only calling each one we need once

game.ReplicatedStorage.Reciever.OnServerEvent:connect(function(player, args)
	local plr = game.Players:GetPlayers() --Better to use :GetPlayers() in case the game stores something in the Players...
	for i = 1, #plr do
		plr[i].PlayerGui.Interface.Wrap_top.Reciever.Text = args
		wait()
		plr[i].PlayerGui.Interface.Wrap_bottom.Input.Text = ""
	end
	game.StarterGui.Interface.Wrap_top.Reciever.Text = args
end)

Also, to keep your code organized, try using tabs instead of spaces. I already replaced the spaces with tabs in the code snippet in this answer.

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Thank you so much.

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