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Everything Runs, Text Won't Change!?

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thesit123 509

7 years ago

Background - I have a 2 scripts, local, that shows the number of games that are current being held and the numbers of available games (Which is, when no games are being held, 25).

PROBLEM - So everything runs fine, I added print() to show that it's working. Yeah all and that, but when changing the text, it won't change.

FAILED SOLUTIONS - 1: I tried adding tostring and tonumber, but it doesn't work, or I just did it wrong. But why would the scripts print the numbers correctly, like there's no problem at all?

2: I've tried directly changing the text instead of changing values and then set the text.

| SCRIPT 1: CHANGING VALUES |

1while wait(0.1) do
2    script.Parent.GamesCurrentV.Value = game.Workspace.Games.GamesNow.Value
3    script.Parent.AvaGamesV.Value = 25 -script.Parent.GamesCurrentV.Value
4end

| SCRIPT 2: CHANGING TEXT |

01while wait(0.01) do
02    local ag = script.Parent.AvaGames.Text
03    local agv = script.Parent.AvaGamesV.Value
04 
05    local gc = script.Parent.GameCurrent.Text
06    local gcv = script.Parent.GamesCurrentV.Value
07 
08    ag = agv
09    gc = gcv
10end

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Answered by

Perci1 4988

7 years ago

I appreciate that you actually tried to solve it yourself, kudos for that.

`1`	`local` `ag` `=` `script.Parent.AvaGames.Text`

The problem here is that you made the variable equal to an object's property (Text). When you do that, the variable will become equal to the property's value, but it doesn't actually keep a reference to the original object. So if the text is "Hello world" then ag will only equal the string "Hello world."

So what that means is that when you edit ag, the variable ag will change, but the actual object won't.

Just make you variables equal to the object, then edit their properties from there.

1local ag = script.Parent.AvaGames
2 
3ag.Text = "whatever text you want"

Thank You! I learn something new everyday! thesit123 509 — 7y

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