RemoteFunction/RemoveEvent running before server is invoked/fired?
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5 years ago Edited 5 years ago
I have a script to filter a textbox upon pressing a button.
1 | local filteredtext = remote:InvokeServer(textbox.Text) |
2 | textbox.Text = filteredtext |
The part above is causing this error:
Players.hpenney2.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.Check.LocalScript:13: bad argument #3 to 'Text' (string expected, got nil)
Specifically, textbox.Text = filteredtext is causing the error.
This is the filter script:
01 | local filter = game:GetService("TextService") |
02 | local repStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage") |
03 | local remote = repStorage:WaitForChild("Filter") |
05 | remote.OnServerInvoke = function(plr, unfilteredtext) |
06 | local success, errorMessage = pcall(function() |
07 | local filteredtext = filter:FilterStringAsync(unfilteredtext, plr.UserId) |
10 | warn("Error filtering text:", unfilteredtext, ":", errorMessage) |
12 | local success, errorMessage = pcall(function() |
13 | filteredtext = filter:FilterStringAsync(unfilteredtext, plr.UserId) |
Something I noticed is that before the server is even invoked (the server is invoked once a button is pressed), this warn shows up in the output:
Error filtering text: nil : Argument 1 missing or nil
Which means the filter is trying to run before the button is even pressed, which it can’t because the argument (textbox.Text, which is, well, a TextBox’s text) isn’t passed to it until it’s invoked.
How can I fix this?
EDIT: I tried adding the following code to the top of the filter script:
1 | if unfilteredtext == nil then |
This makes the warn go away, but the error still occurs upon pressing the button.
EDIT 2: Switching to using a RemoteEvent also does not fix this issue.
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