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Not a valid member of PlayerGui?

Asked Mar 23, 2018680 views2 answers

This is the script

local followMouse = script.Parent.Parent.FollowMouseScript

followMouse.Disabled = false

I checked a bunch of times, it is a member of PlayerGui!!! But it just keeps giving me this error saying FollowMouseScript is not a valid member of PlayerGui, is this a bug or is it really just me!?

The script above is a Script inside a Gui inside StarterGui, and I made it to activate a LocalScript that is inside StarterGui.

I tested this 10 times or more, and it keeps bringing me the same error!

AnonymousMar 23, 2018Edited Mar 23, 2018

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Try using :

local followMouse = script.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild('FollowMouseScript')

followMouse.Disabled = false

The only difference is that you're waiting for it to exist. Because the script might be trying to define it when the followmousescript hasn't been loaded yet.

AnonymousMar 23, 2018Permalink

3 comments

exactly. had similar problem when making a train driving script and it required certain values, and it was randomly throwing an error.

AnonymousMar 23, 2018#

Oh mehhh guud, Thank u so much it's a masterpiece now becuz of u!! :D

AnonymousMar 23, 2018#

no problem :)

AnonymousMar 23, 2018#

If your game is FE, scripts cannot access the descendants of PlayerGui. Try doing something other than that

AnonymousMar 23, 2018Permalink

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Thing is, it's not FE. :p

AnonymousMar 23, 2018#

well, then you're probably not waiting for the gui instances to load, because everything doesn't load in immediately as you join the game. Use WaitForChild()

AnonymousMar 23, 2018#

they CAN access but if a player script modifies something in PlayerGui then the server and other players wont see changes to it and may break some scripts.

AnonymousMar 23, 2018#

A server - sided script(Normal script) can access the PlayerGui instance, but not its descendants when FE is enabled. He's not dealing with FE

AnonymousMar 23, 2018#

Well, thanks for the extra information and for the answer too.

AnonymousMar 23, 2018#

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