Getting a weird text error for typewriter script

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#1

Hi, so I and my friend are just adding typewriter text to my game to make it more realistic, the text does work it’s just that we’ve run into a small error for one of them and it’s not working.
Here’s the code the typeWriter text is used in:

local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local PlayerModule = require(game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerScripts:WaitForChild("PlayerModule"))
local Controls = PlayerModule:GetControls()
local Badge_Service = game:GetService("BadgeService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local BadgeID = 2125784344
local BadgeID1 = 2125784379
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local TypeWriter = require(ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild('TypeWriter'))


local Prompt = game.Workspace.signupredirectlol.ProximityPrompt
local screengui = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.ScreenGui
local CGUI = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.CGUI
local textt = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.CGUI.textt
local No = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.CGUI.No
local Yes = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.CGUI.Yes
local NResponse = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.CGUI.NResponse
local YResponse = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.CGUI.YResponse
local Frame = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.CGUI.Frame
local money = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.CGUI.Frame.money
local noc = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.CGUI.Frame.noc



Prompt.Triggered:Connect(function()
	Prompt.Enabled = false
	Controls:Enable(false)
	No.Visible = true
	Yes.Visible = true
	textt.Visible = true
	TypeWriter.typeWrite(script.Parent, "Are you here to buy some cheese? We only have one left.")
	wait(2)
end)

No.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	No.Visible = false
	Yes.Visible = false
	textt.Visible = false
	NResponse.Visible = true
	wait(2)
	Frame.Visible = true
	noc.Visible = true
		Badge_Service:AwardBadge(Player.UserId,BadgeID1)
		game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent:FireServer()
		wait(2)
		print(Player, "ending n")
		Player:Kick("Ending: you said no to the clerk")
	end)

Yes.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	No.Visible = false
	Yes.Visible = false
	textt.Visible = false
	YResponse.Visible = true
	wait(2)
	Frame.Visible = true
	money.Visible = true
		Badge_Service:AwardBadge(Player.UserId,BadgeID)
		game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent:FireServer()
		wait(2)
		print(Player, "ending s")
		Player:Kick("Ending: you forgot your money")
	end)

Here’s the typeWriter system code:

local SOURCE_LOCALE = "en"

local LocalizationService = game:GetService("LocalizationService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local player = Players.LocalPlayer

local translator = nil
pcall(function()
	translator = LocalizationService:GetTranslatorForPlayerAsync(player)
end)
if not translator then
	pcall(function()
		translator = LocalizationService:GetTranslatorForLocaleAsync(SOURCE_LOCALE)
	end)
end

local TypeWriter = {}

local defaultConfigurations = {
	delayTime = 0.08,
	extraDelayOnSpace = true
}

function TypeWriter.configure(configurations)
	for key, value in pairs(defaultConfigurations) do
		local newValue = configurations[key]
		if newValue ~= nil then
			defaultConfigurations[key] = newValue
		else
			warn(key .. " is not a valid configuration for TypeWriter module")
		end
	end
end

function TypeWriter.typeWrite(guiObject, text)
	guiObject.AutoLocalize = false
	guiObject.Text = ""
	local displayText = text
	if translator then
		displayText = translator:Translate(guiObject, text)
	end
	for first, last in utf8.graphemes(displayText) do
		local grapheme = string.sub(displayText, first, last)
		guiObject.Text = guiObject.Text .. grapheme
		if defaultConfigurations.extraDelayOnSpace and grapheme == " " then
			wait(defaultConfigurations.delayTime)
		end
		wait(defaultConfigurations.delayTime)
	end
end

return TypeWriter

Here is the error it is giving us:
Text is not a valid member of ScreenGui “Players.WaterCanxiety.PlayerGui.CGUI”

#2

My assumption is on your Prompt.Triggered connection the instance returned from script.Parent is not a TextLabel.

#3

Could you elaborate on this more, I’m not really understanding sorry

#4

The error is saying that you cannot assign the property “Text” to a Screen Gui. Which means, on this block of code here:

Prompt.Triggered:Connect(function()
	Prompt.Enabled = false
	Controls:Enable(false)
	No.Visible = true
	Yes.Visible = true
	textt.Visible = true
	TypeWriter.typeWrite(script.Parent, "Are you here to buy some cheese? We only have one left.")
	wait(2)
end)

at the end where you call

TypeWriter.typeWrite(script.Parent, "Are you here to buy some cheese? We only have one left.")

the “script.Parent” is not a TextLabel class. I’m not sure the layout of your GUI, but I can imagine that it should be something like

TypeWriter.typeWrite(script.Parent.TextLabelName, "Are you here to buy some cheese? We only have one left.")
#5

Okay so your answer fixed the text problem but I got a new error instead
ReplicatedStorage.TypeWriter:37: attempt to index string with ‘AutoLocalize’

Line 37: guiObject.AutoLocalize = false

#6

It’s the same case as before the “guiObject” referenced is a string and not an instance of a textlabel/ui. You cannot assign the property “AutoLocalize” to a string, you can only assign it to objects such as TextLabel, ScreenGui, TextButtons etc.

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