Hi, so I was trying to make a gui that when I type a command (-changetext)(text to change to) it would change the text but I keep getting this error: 15:23:25.213 PlayerGui is not a valid member of Players "Players" - Server - ChangeTextScript:7
Basically i wanna make it so my gui will change text when I say a command there’s two codes but i’ll send the one that has error:
local player = game:GetService("Players")
local changeTextEvent = Instance.new("RemoteEvent")
changeTextEvent.Name = "ChangeTextEvent"
changeTextEvent.Parent = game.ReplicatedStorage
local function changeText(newText)
local screenGui = player.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("MyScreenGui"):Clone()
local textObject = screenGui.MessageLabel
textObject.Text = newText
changeTextEvent:FireAllClients(newText)
end
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.Chatted:Connect(function(message)
if string.sub(message, 1, 11) == "-changetext" then
local newText = string.sub(message, 13)
changeText(newText)
end
end)
end)
btw this is a script not local so ye
Pls help me ty
Hello there! The error message you are getting suggests that player.PlayerGui is not a valid member of Players. This is because player is a Players object, not a specific player. To fix this, you can update your changeText function to accept a player parameter instead of using the player variable from your main code:
local changeTextEvent = Instance.new("RemoteEvent")
changeTextEvent.Name = "ChangeTextEvent"
changeTextEvent.Parent = game.ReplicatedStorage
local function changeText(player, newText)
local screenGui = player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"):WaitForChild("MyScreenGui"):Clone()
local textObject = screenGui.MessageLabel
textObject.Text = newText
changeTextEvent:FireAllClients(newText)
end
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
local screenGui = script.Parent:WaitForChild("ScreenGui"):Clone()
screenGui.Parent = player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
end)
player.Chatted:Connect(function(message)
if string.sub(message, 1, 11) == "-changetext" then
local newText = string.sub(message, 13)
changeText(player, newText)
end
end)
end)
Notice that in the updated changeText function, we are now using the accepted player parameter to get the player’s PlayerGui. In addition, I also updated the code to add the MyScreenGui to the player’s PlayerGui when they join the game. Let me know if this helps!
Yes, that is correct. ServerScriptService scripts running on the server cannot access the PlayerGui objects of individual players.
Instead, you can create a LocalScript in the StarterGui to listen to the RemoteEvent and update the UI. Here’s an example:
-- ServerScriptService script
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local changeTextEvent = Instance.new("RemoteEvent")
changeTextEvent.Name = "ChangeTextEvent"
changeTextEvent.Parent = game.ReplicatedStorage
local function changeText(player, newText)
-- You don't need to clone the ScreenGui each time
local screenGui = player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"):WaitForChild("MyScreenGui")
local textObject = screenGui.MessageLabel
textObject.Text = newText
changeTextEvent:FireAllClients(newText)
end
players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.Chatted:Connect(function(message)
if string.sub(message, 1, 11) == "-changetext" then
local newText = string.sub(message, 13)
changeText(player, newText)
end
end)
end)
-- LocalScript in StarterGui
local changeTextEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.ChangeTextEvent
changeTextEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(newText)
local screenGui = game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"):WaitForChild("MyScreenGui")
local textObject = screenGui.MessageLabel
textObject.Text = newText
end)
Note that you should have a ScreenGui instance named “MyScreenGui” in the StarterGui and a TextLabel inside it with the Name property set to “MessageLabel”.
Unfortunately, since the script relies on the ScreenGui objects of each player, the text will not be saved if there are no players in the server.
If you need to persist the text even when there are no players, you would need to save it to some sort of data store (such as DataStoreService or DataPersistenceService) or to a file using the DataStore2 module.
Sure, here’s an example of how to use DataStoreService to save and load text:
local MyDataStore = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("MyDataStoreName")
local DEFAULT_TEXT = "Hello, world!" -- Change this to your default message
local function loadText(player)
local success, value = pcall(function()
return MyDataStore:GetAsync(tostring(player.UserId))
end)
if success then
return value or DEFAULT_TEXT
else
warn("Failed to load text for player " .. player.Name .. ": " .. tostring(value))
return DEFAULT_TEXT
end
end
local function saveText(player, newText)
local success, value = pcall(function()
MyDataStore:SetAsync(tostring(player.UserId), newText)
end)
if not success then
warn("Failed to save text for player " .. player.Name .. ": " .. tostring(value))
end
end
local players = game:GetService("Players")
players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
local screenGui = Instance.new("ScreenGui")
screenGui.Name = "MyScreenGui"
screenGui.Parent = player.PlayerGui
local messageLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
messageLabel.Name = "MessageLabel"
messageLabel.Position = UDim2.new(0.5, 0, 0.5, 0)
messageLabel.Size = UDim2.new(0, 200, 0, 50)
messageLabel.AnchorPoint = Vector2.new(0.5, 0.5)
messageLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
messageLabel.Font = Enum.Font.SourceSans
messageLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 1, 1)
messageLabel.TextSize = 20
messageLabel.Parent = screenGui
local newText = loadText(player)
messageLabel.Text = newText
player.Chatted:Connect(function(message)
if string.sub(message, 1, 11) == "-changetext" then
newText = string.sub(message, 13)
messageLabel.Text = newText
saveText(player, newText)
end
end)
end)
players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
saveText(player, player.PlayerGui.MyScreenGui.MessageLabel.Text)
end)
This script loads the text for each player from MyDataStore, saves it when a player changes it, and saves it again when the player leaves the server to ensure that it is persisted even when there are no players in the server.
Note that you must replace “MyDataStoreName” with a unique identifier for your data store. Also, if you’re testing the script locally, you should use the DataStore2 module instead of DataStoreService since the latter does not work on the Roblox Studio client.
well its placed in serverscriptservice here is the picture: