so I insert Players userID inside a table it looks something like this
{1 = "Roblox", 2 = "IDKTHISPLAYER"}
but since this is inserted in player added
I was wondering How I could use something similar to :WaitForChild on a table
It would look something like
Table:WaitForChild(Player.UserId)
But I know for a fact that WaitForChild don't work on a table
So in your case you'll be waiting for a table to hold a value or player to be added to the table? I would check a table for the existence of a key value, instead of value, in order to make it easier to wait for the existence of playername added to it.
I suppose one thing you could do is run a function that converts your current table structure temporarily so that the values become keys and then do a check for that key... you could then run a loop that returns true when the key is found.
function waitForTableValue(tbl,value,timeout_seconds)
-- do some checks
if timeout_seconds==nil or timeout_seconds==0 then
timeout_seconds = 3 -- default to timeout_seconds
end
if value==nil then
return false
end
local start_time = game.Workspace.DistributedGameTime
-- you could also do a type check on tbl, but below should suffice... just be sure to make tbl a table!
if tbl==nil or #tbl==0 then
return false
end
local tmptable = {}
for i,v in pairs(tbl) do
tmptable[v] = i
end
while tmptable[value]==nil and game.Workspace.DistributedGameTime - start_time<timeout_seconds do
wait(.1)
end
if tmptable[value]~=nil then
return true
end
return false
end
The ":WaitForChild()" also same as like":FindFirstChild()".
The call ":FindFirstChild()" does as it says. It finds the first child of a parent of which you name it. There must always be an argument, most likely a string. Let's see how it works:
game.Workspace.Figure:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
If you think I explain too hard, explain not cleary, want to see more information with ":FindFirstChild" , click here.
Also, ":WaitForChild()" is find the thing that doesn't exist at testing mode,when you start the game, the thing will appear at the game. Like this :
local part = Instance.New("Part")
part.Parent = game.Workspace
part.Position = Vector3.new("0,0,0")
game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Part").BrickColor = BrickColor.Random()
If you think I explain too hard, explain not cleary, want to see more information with ":WaitForChild()" , click here.
Hope I helped.Thanks for reading!
NOTE : I pretty new from scripting helpers, so I don't know how to make a blockquote XD
I don't think WaitFoChid works on table elements. It doesn't... that's good for game elements.. not data.
Oops... I took that saying about the similar of the WaitForChild() , but I doesn't notice about the script is a table element.. Sorry :P
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What are you trying to do?