Gui isn't a valid member of PlayerGui

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#1

I am working on a script that when you press a button, it will go to another screengui and will enable a frame inside of it. However, I keep getting the same error and I am stuck and don’t know what to do.

Here is the error message I keep receiving:

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Here is my code:

local CloseButton = script.Parent
local Wallpaper = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Windows95.WallPaper


CloseButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	script.LeaveSound:Play()
	wait(0.1)
	Wallpaper.Visible = true
end)
#2

ScreenGuis are streamed into existence when the player first spawns (assuming default settings). Because of this, your LocalScript might actually run before certain items in your Gui exist yet (in a way, they haven’t downloaded yet). It usually only takes a couple frames at most, but it still takes some time.

To get around this, you can use WaitForChild, which will wait until a certain object exists. Also, to clean up your code, it’s probably better to reference down the tree from the player object, rather than chaining a bunch of Parent.Parent.Parent... stuff:

local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local CloseButton = script.Parent

-- WaitForChilds added for Windows95 and WallPaper (not needed for PlayerGui since it exists immediatley)
local Wallpaper = player.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("Windows95"):WaitForChild("WallPaper")

CloseButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	script.LeaveSound:Play()
	wait(0.1)
	Wallpaper.Visible = true
end)

The reason you don’t need it for the CloseButton is because it’s the parent of the script. So the script won’t exist unless that button exists first.

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#3

Thank you so much! This makes a ton of sense and helps me out.

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