I'm attempting to change Workspace.Scorekeeper,SurfaceGui.Frame.Round1's text to the score value Score=0 to 90
But my attempts have failed.
How exactly do I change the text of a textbox to something else? Attempt:
If Workspace.PartScoreboard.SurfaceGui.Frame.Pin1.Backgroundcolor3 = color3.new(1, 0, 1)
Workspace.Scorekeeper.SurfaceGui.frame.Round1.Text.new ((score))
end
Lua is case sensitive, so you need to be careful. if should always be lowercase. To access the Workspace, the following are acceptable:
game.Workspace
game:GetService("Workspace")
workspace
BackgroundColor3 should always have proper case as well:
As GoldenPhysics stated, Text is a writable property. That means you can set it using =. The only time you can't set properties is if they are read-only.
You should also make sure that your conditionals are formatted as such:
if (_____) then
-- Code if ____ is true
else
-- Code if ____ is false
end
To check if something is the same as something else you can use ==
local num = 2
if 2 == num then
print("num is 2")
else
print("num is not 2")
end
Here's the finished product:
if workspace.PartScoreboard.SurfaceGui.Frame.Pin1.BackgroundColor3 == Color3.new(1, 0, 1) then
workspace.Scorekeeper.SurfaceGui.frame.Round1.Text = score
end
Text is a Property
Text is a property of a GuiObject, just like BackgroundColor3, Position, and Size.
Literal string
Therefore, to set it, just get the property of the gui guiObject.Text and set it equal to the string you want .
guiObject.Text = "the score is 5"
Non-string conversion to string
It is also possible to use non-strings if they will automatically convert to a string, such as numbers, or if manually set to a string using the tostring() method.
guiObject.Text = 5
Using variables
Variables can be used to store a string or non-string as described.
local score = 5
guiObject.Text = score
Concatenation and string manipulation
Additionally, string manipulation - frequently concatenation - can be used.
local score = 5
guiObject.Text = "The score is: " .. score
Or, with another variable:
local score = 5
local scorePrefix = "The score is: "
guiObject.Text = scorePrefix .. score
The Final Result
local frame = workspace.PartScoreboard.SurfaceGui.Frame --the path of the frame storing the guis
local score = 5 --the score, updated in other code
if frame.Pin1.BackgroundColor3 == color3.new(1, 0, 1) then --the conditional, as given, debugged
frame.Round1.Text = score --the assignment of the text
end
It is important to use conditional statements (ifs) correctly. All keywords are lowercase (if not If), double equals == is used to compare while singe equals= is used for assignment, and all ifs require then to close the conditional.
That was slightly confusing, but thank you for you're answer ^^'
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Text is a property, like Backgroundcolor3. Therefore, gui.Text = textvar. Of course, textvar needs to be a string (or convertable into a string, such as a number).
You also need two == and lowercase if and a then.