How to fix invalid attempt to call nil fucntion?

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so i tried making a modulescript where whne the user clicks a gui button it shrinks right. i put it in replicatedstorage and called it UI_Animations. Then i tried requiring it form a localscript where i looped through the all the descendants of a screengui and whenever the player would press a gui button it would shrink. That was the plan. but then it gave me the error “Players.TobiElReyofficial758.PlayerGui.Frames.Shop.Frame.Buttongroup1.AnimateUI:9: attempt to call a nil value”

These are the scripts:

Modulescript:

local animations = {}

Click_Settings = {
	length = 0.2,
	EasingStyle = Enum.EasingStyle.Sine,
	EasingDirection = Enum.EasingDirection.Out,
	Size = 1.2,
}

function animations.onClick(button, group)
	if button:FindFirstChild("Cooldown_Click").Value == false then
		button:FindFirstChild("Cooldown_Click").Value = true
		local info = {}
		info.TweenInfo = TweenInfo.new(
			Click_Settings.length,
			Click_Settings.EasingStyle,
			Click_Settings.EasingDirection,
			0,
			false,
			0
		)
		info.ShrinkSize = UDim2.new(button.Size.X.Scale/Click_Settings.Size,0,button.Size.Y.Scale/Click_Settings.Size,0)
		info.ShrinkTween = tweenService:Create(button, info.TweenInfo, {Size = info.ShrinkSize})
		info.ShrinkTween:Play()
		task.wait(0.5)
		button:FindFirstChild("Cooldown_Click").Value = false
	end
end```

localscript:

```local replicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local UI_Animations = require(replicatedStorage:WaitForChild('UI_Animations'))
task.wait(5)


for _, button in pairs(script.Parent:GetDescendants()) do
	if button:IsA("GuiButton") then
		button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
			UI_Animations.onClick(button, button.Parent, button.Parent.Parent)
		end)
	end
end```

any fixes?
2

In the module script To give the function
You have to put a return

return animations

2 Likes
3

where should i put it? i mean at what line after what?

4

In the end of your module script.

5

it still dosen’t work it keeps saying "Key ‘onClick’ not found in table ‘Module3D’

6

it still dosen’t work it keeps saying "Key ‘onClick’ not found in table ‘Module3D’. i have no idea why.but it keeps saying that inside the localscript.

7

In your module:

function animations.onClick(button, group)

In your local script:

UI_Animations.onClick(button, button.Parent, button.Parent.Parent)

Why the localscript called with 3 args until the module needs just 2?

8

i already tried deleting the third arg but it still dosen’t seem to work

9

Can you try this possible solution script?

Module:

local animations = {}
local tweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")

Click_Settings = {
	length = 0.2,
	EasingStyle = Enum.EasingStyle.Sine,
	EasingDirection = Enum.EasingDirection.Out,
	Size = 1.2,
}

function animations.onClick(button)
	if not button:FindFirstChild("Cooldown_Click") then
		print("Cooldown_Click is not here")
	end
	if button:FindFirstChild("Cooldown_Click").Value == false then
		button:FindFirstChild("Cooldown_Click").Value = true
		local info = {}
		info.TweenInfo = TweenInfo.new(
			Click_Settings.length,
			Click_Settings.EasingStyle,
			Click_Settings.EasingDirection,
			0,
			false,
			0
		)
		info.ShrinkSize = UDim2.new(button.Size.X.Scale/Click_Settings.Size,0,button.Size.Y.Scale/Click_Settings.Size,0)
		info.ShrinkTween = tweenService:Create(button, info.TweenInfo, {Size = info.ShrinkSize})
		info.ShrinkTween:Play()
		task.wait(0.5)
		button:FindFirstChild("Cooldown_Click").Value = false
	end
end

return animations

Local Script:

local replicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local UI_Animations = require(replicatedStorage:WaitForChild('UI_Animations'))
task.wait(5)


for _, button in pairs(script.Parent:GetDescendants()) do
	if button:IsA("GuiButton") then
		button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
			UI_Animations.onClick(button)
		end)
	end
end
10

IT still dosen’t work. What in the world. it gives me the same error

11

what error sended in your output?

12

Players.TobiElReyofficial758.PlayerGui.Frames.Shop.Frame.Buttongroup1.AnimateUI:9: attempt to call a nil value

13

have you put this line?

return animations
14

I have the solution of your problem, i think:

local UI_Animations = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.UI_Animations)
task.wait(5)


for _, button in pairs(script.Parent:GetDescendants()) do
	if button:IsA("GuiButton") then
		button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
			UI_Animations.onClick(button)
		end)
	end
end
15

whats wrong with that darn module. it still dosen’t work?

16

Where you put your module? in The ReplicatedStorage
The module it’s named “UI_Animations” right?

17

I have change some lines in your module (is a test) can you test it:

local animations = {}
local tweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")

Click_Settings = {
	length = 0.2,
	EasingStyle = Enum.EasingStyle.Sine,
	EasingDirection = Enum.EasingDirection.Out,
	Size = 1.2,
}

function animations.onClick(button)
	if not button:FindFirstChild("Cooldown_Click") then
		print("Cooldown_Click is not here")
	end
	if button:FindFirstChild("Cooldown_Click").Value == false then
		button:FindFirstChild("Cooldown_Click").Value = true
		local info = {}
		info.TweenInfo = TweenInfo.new(
			Click_Settings.length,
			Click_Settings.EasingStyle,
			Click_Settings.EasingDirection,
			0,
			false,
			0
		)
		tweenService:Create(button, info.TweenInfo, {Size = UDim2.new(button.Size.X.Scale/Click_Settings.Size,0,button.Size.Y.Scale/Click_Settings.Size,0)}):Play()
		task.wait(Click_Settings.length)
		button:FindFirstChild("Cooldown_Click").Value = false
	end
end

return animations
18

this is really troubling. i tested it and it dosent work.

19

Can you try this module changed?:

local animations = {}
local tweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")

Click_Settings = {
	length = 0.2,
	EasingStyle = Enum.EasingStyle.Sine,
	EasingDirection = Enum.EasingDirection.Out,
	Size = 1.2,
}

function animations.onClick(button)
	local cooldown_click = button:FindFirstChild("Cooldown_Click") or Instance.new("BoolValue",button)
	cooldown_click.Name = "Cooldown_Click"
	if cooldown_click.Value == false then
		cooldown_click.Value = true
		tweenService:Create(button, TweenInfo.new(
			Click_Settings.length,
			Click_Settings.EasingStyle,
			Click_Settings.EasingDirection,
			0,
			false,
			0
			), {Size = UDim2.new(button.Size.X.Scale/Click_Settings.Size,0,button.Size.Y.Scale/Click_Settings.Size,0)}):Play()
		task.wait(Click_Settings.length)
		cooldown_click.Value = false
	end
end

return animations
20

Is UI_Animations.onClick nil based on the error?

Can you confirm that it is a function if you print UI_Animations.onClick without calling it a line above that?