How do I access a Gui's text faster? (game.Players.PlayerRemoving and saving the Text in a datastore)

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#1

Here is my code below. I’ve encountered the problem where the script is not accessing a Gui’s text fast enough to save into a datastore in a game.Players.PlayerRemoving function. The client/player is already removed from the game before the script is able to access the Gui’s Text. Any ways to access the Gui’s text faster?

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	local generaldatatable = {player.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("QuestGui").Frame.MainFrame.Quest1.CoinAmount.Text, player.leaderstats["Coins"].Value}
	local success, error = pcall(function()
		DataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId, generaldatatable)
	end)
end)
#2

Periodically save it. Pick some interval that wont max out your request budget.

#3

What interval of seconds would you recommend to autosave?

#4

Read this article.

#5

Would 10 seconds be too little and lag the game out? Is 30 seconds better?

#6

10 would work. 30 might be better though to leave room for other datastore requests.

#7

1

use ordereddatastore [my recommendation]

2

ordered datastore can’t store strings, but can store tables

3

how to convert a string to a table of bytes

function STB(str)
 local res = {}
 for i = 1, #str do
  local by = string.byte(string.sub(str, i, i))
  res[#res+1] = by
 end
 return res
end

function BTS(tbl)
 local res = ''
 for _, by in next, tbl do
  local ch = string.char(by)
  res = res .. ch
 end
 return res
end

print(BTS(STB('among us drip')))
#8

I don’t really know your entire setup but I’m gonna assume you set CoinAmount.Text for a player from the server at some point.

You can just store the CoinAmount in a playerData dictionary when you change the coins, and when the player leaves, read the CoinAmount from playerData instead of the GUI TextLabel

Something like this:

local playerData = {}
players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    playerData[player.UserId] = {}
end)

-- whenever you change the coins for the player on their gui, it will also get stored in playerData dictionary
local function SetCoins(player, amount)
    local data = playerData[player.UserId]
    data.CoinAmount = amount
    player.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("QuestGui").Frame.MainFrame.Quest1.CoinAmount.Text = amount
end

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
    local data = playerData[player.UserId]
	local generaldatatable = {data.CoinAmount, player.leaderstats["Coins"].Value}
	local success, error = pcall(function()
		DataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId, generaldatatable)
	end)
end)