:GetPropertyChangedSignal() not working

[CaptainWeetabix]

Hello. The following script does not entirely work:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local leaderstats = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
local Rank = leaderstats:WaitForChild("Rank")
local playerRank = Rank.Value

local setText = "Rank: "

script.Parent.Text = setText..playerRank

Rank:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Value"):Connect(function()
	script.Parent.Text = setText..playerRank
end)

Line 8 does work, the TextLabel updates to the player’s leaderstat upon entry to the game. However, the problem lies in lines 10-13 as the TextLabel does not update when the leaderstat value changes.

Any help is appreciated.

[steven4547466 (Steven)]

You never update playerRank so it’ll be the same every time.

[Katrist]

@CaptainWeetabix

Line 8 does work, the TextLabel updates to the player’s leaderstat upon entry to the game. However, the problem lies in lines 10-13 as the TextLabel does not update when the leaderstat value changes.

It will only detect changes after you first change the text in this situation. Try changing it in a playtest after everything loads (on the server).

[KowalskiStan]

just do

Rank.Changed:Connect(function()
	script.Parent.Text = setText..playerRank
end)

this is what I always do and this works.

[HugeCoolboy2007 (omega)]

That’s the same thing, GetPropertyChangedSignal just detects a specific property instead of all of them

@CaptainWeetabix, you’d want to do something like this:

Rank:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Value"):Connect(function()
	script.Parent.Text = setText .. Rank.Value -- gets the new value
end)

[KowalskiStan]

I didnt notice he only called rank.value once in a variable, good catch!

[D0RYU (nici)]

actually Rank.Changed should do the exact same thing as this

Rank is a ValueBase so when you use Changed it will only run if the Value property was changed