How can I make a UI That stays only once

[Annexsohn]

Hello! How can I make a UI That only shows up once? Let’s say there was an update GUI, and you join, close it, and rejoin, it won’t show it anymore. How can I do that?

If you know, it’ll be appreciated!

[SummerEquinox]

Generally you would use DataStores to save whether a player has played before.

[BillPlayzToday (BillPlayz)]

Try something like this:

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")

local YourDataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("YourDataStore")


game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
        pcall(function()
		if not YourDataStore:GetAsync(player.UserId) then
			-- Do stuff that only executes once (show the ui in your case)
			YourDataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId,true)
		end
        end)
end)

[SummerEquinox]

Always wrap DataStore updates inside a pcall in case the service fails, so that you can retry.

[BillPlayzToday (BillPlayz)]

Pcall does not retry, it just silences any errors and returns them as a function.
But yes, edited!

[SummerEquinox]

It is recommended practice to wrap DataStore updates inside a pcall. DataStoreService can fail.

[BillPlayzToday (BillPlayz)]

I know, that’s true, but I you said that they retry and thats wrong: they only silence the error.

[Qin2007]

How can I make a 1 time event

datastore service

use datastore service and find the UserId . on if it doesn’t exist create it and the player is joined the first time if it exists, then the player has been here before

badge

its important that you first check if the player has the badge and then award it check if the player has the badge if the player has the badge then the player has been here before if not award the player the badge and the player is joined the first time

i think this is it

[SummerEquinox]

I didn’t say that pcall directly retries, I insinuated that a pcall error should be met with another attempt in good game development.