Events Creating New Threads

[CIogger (atomes)]

I’m trying to connect a function to OnClientEvent. The problem is that each time the event is fired, a new thread is created. I have a while loop in the function connected to the event, and I don’t want it to create another loop every time the OnClientEvent is fired. Any help is appreciated.

playerZone.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(button,inZone)
	while true do
		if not inZone then return end
		AddStat(button,1)
	end
end)

function AddStat(stat,amount)
	local Stat = StatsFolder:FindFirstChild(stat)
	if not Stat then warn(Stat,"stat doesn't exist. Try renaming the part") return end
	local StatGui = PlayerGui:FindFirstChild(stat)
	
	Stat.Value += amount
	StatGui.Text = Stat.Value
	print("Stat added")
	task.wait(0.5)
	return Stat.Value
end

[DAWS0NAS (dawson)]

The while loop is the issue yes. It will continue indefinitely regardless of whether the event is fired again or not. To fix this, we can reset the loop each time the event is triggered by doing the following, let me know if this works:

local Processing = false

playerZone.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(button, inZone)
    Processing = inZone
    
    while Processing do
        AddStat(button, 1)
    end
end)

function AddStat(stat, amount)
    local Stat = StatsFolder:FindFirstChild(stat)
    if not Stat then
        warn(Stat, "stat doesn't exist. Try renaming the part")
        return
    end
    
    local StatGui = PlayerGui:FindFirstChild(stat)
    
    Stat.Value += amount
    StatGui.Text = Stat.Value
    print("Stat added")
    task.wait(0.5)
    return Stat.Value
end