Typewriter breaks when a player joins the game while it runs

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#1

The tiitle basically explains my issue. I would love a fix.

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#2

Not sure why exactly you are doing this on the server.

You can just have the typewriter run on the client by copy pasting the for loop into a localscript under the gui element and you should be good.

#3

this is just a copypaste for an example. What is happening is that it’s a script in the workspace that is controlling the messages that show up.

#4

It breaks if someone joins while the typewriter message is being typed on screen

#5

It breaks because the player that joined is not in the table you got with players:GetPlayers() at the time of execution. You should use a players.PlayerAdded connection instead.

Also, this isn’t a… great way to do a typewriter effect. Roblox has actually relatively recently added a MaxVisibleGraphemes property that makes it a whole lot simpler. Here’s how you would do it:

local textLabel = player.PlayerGui.MessageBox.Frame.TextLabel
textLabel.Text = "This is just an example message."

for count = 0, string.len(textLabel.Text) do
    textLabel.MaxVisibleGraphemes = count
    
    task.wait()
end