Hint system not working

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#1

So I’ve got this simple system for doing hints in my game. Basically, any serverscript can fire the HintEvent with a string that it will show, and a local script under the playerscripts will show the text with a Hint Object. Yes, i know that hints are deprecated, but they aren’t broken in at all. Anyways, my issue is that the hint just shows the first letter of the hint without going through each character. I think the issue might have something to do with my usage of coroutines. Im new to using them and not sure if im doing it right. Anyways, heres the Script under a part in the workspace, and the local script.

Part Script:

local HintEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.HintEvent

local Part = script.Parent

local ClickDetector = Part.ClickDetector

ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function(Player)
	HintEvent:FireClient(Player, "This a test for the Hint System, to make sure all is in working order.")
end)

LocalScript:

local SoundService = game:GetService("SoundService")

local HintEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.HintEvent

local Gui = script.Parent

local CurrentHint = nil

local CurrentLoop = nil

HintEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(Text: string)
	if CurrentLoop ~= nil then
		coroutine.close(CurrentLoop)
		CurrentHint:Destroy()
	end
	
	local Hint = Instance.new("Hint")
	Hint.Parent = Gui

	CurrentHint = Hint
	
	CurrentLoop = coroutine.create(function()
		for i, v in pairs(Text:split("")) do
			Hint.Text = Hint.Text..v
			SoundService:PlayLocalSound(script.Sound)
			wait(0.05)
		end
		
		wait(3)
		
		Hint:Destroy()
		CurrentHint = nil
		CurrentLoop = nil
	end)
	
	coroutine.resume(CurrentLoop)
end)

The Hint that shows:

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#3

You can use #string to get the full length of a string, that taken into account we could:

local my_string = "This is a string!"

for i = 1,#my_string  do
	local current = string.sub(my_string, i, i)
	Hint.Text = Hint.Text..current
	task.wait(.05)
end
#4

This works better for what i wanted, but the hint still just shows “T”. Im not sure this has to do with the for loop but instead my usage of coroutines which im VERY unfamiliar with.

#5

not completely sure though.

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#6

Im noticing by using print() that the for loop doesn’t do anything after the line

Hint.Text = Hint.Text..v
#7

I have tried your code in Studio after my edit and it seems to work just fine…

local SoundService = game:GetService("SoundService")

local HintEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.HintEvent

local Gui = script.Parent

local CurrentHint = nil

local CurrentLoop = nil

HintEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(Text: string)
	if CurrentLoop ~= nil then
		coroutine.close(CurrentLoop)
		CurrentHint:Destroy()
	end

	local Hint = Instance.new("Hint")
	Hint.Parent = Gui
	CurrentHint = Hint

	CurrentLoop = coroutine.create(function()
		for i = 1,#Text  do
			local current = string.sub(Text, i, i)
			Hint.Text = Hint.Text..current
			task.wait(.05)
		end
		wait(3)
		Hint:Destroy()
		CurrentHint = nil
		CurrentLoop = nil
	end)

	coroutine.resume(CurrentLoop)
end)
#8

wait no
its after the playsound thing

#9

huh. thats odd. Maybe i should try making a new thing and put everything into it

#10

Oh i see that your code doesnt have the playsound function being used. So it seems it definitely has something to do with the sound thing. Everything works perfectly when i comment the sound thing out

#11

that’s weird, you should stick to sound:Play() then

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#12

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