How to get children of an Instance if they have to clone yet?

[3KatW (Kat)]

I wanna get the children of an Instance (a Leaderboard) that will clone frames with player names on it and every method that I tried failed because I wouldn’t get the cloned children.

Code:

local SurfaceGui = Leaderboard.SurfaceGui

local Contents_Frame = SurfaceGui.Frame.Contents

local ItemsFrame = Contents_Frame.Items

for i, PlayerNameFrame in pairs(ItemsFrame:GetChildren()) do
	task.wait(10)
	if PlayerNameFrame:IsA("Frame") then
		print(PlayerNameFrame.Name)
	end
end

Here’s a screen shot of the instance that I wanna get the children of.

[EntryRoot]

My take on this would be, that you call :GetChildren() before the children are even created. Try yielding until the children are finished creating and then loop through them.

[3KatW (Kat)]

Never heard of yielding and never used it before could you please give me a link a dev forum post. I’m new to lua and have to yet learn some stuff, but thank you for your suggestion!

[EntryRoot]

Yielding basically means stopping the script from running temporarily.
So you could wait until the children are finished creating and then you call :GetChildren() to loop through them.

Another way to do this would be firing an event once the children are finished creating. You could then listen to that event to be fired.

[IamNewToRiblix]

Try doing :ChildAdded .
This will fire each time anything is added to the Items folder.

local SurfaceGui = Leaderboard.SurfaceGui

local Contents_Frame = SurfaceGui.Frame.Contents

local ItemsFrame = Contents_Frame.Items

local Connection

function OnPlayerFrameAdded(PlayerFrame)
if PlayerFrame:IsA("Frame") then
print(PlayerFrame.Name.." Was Added to the Items Frame!")
Connection:Disconnect()
end
end

Connection = ItemsFrame.ChildAdded:Connect(OnPlayerFrameAdded)

[Forummer]

If you’re expecting an instance to have children added to it then you should hook a callback function to its ‘ChildAdded’ event. Here’s an example which uses the ‘Workspace’ container.

local Workspace = workspace

local function OnWorkspaceChildAdded(Child)
	print(Child.Name)
end

Workspace.ChildAdded:Connect(OnWorkspaceChildAdded)

local Part = Instance.new("Part")
Part.Name = "Test"
Part.Parent = Workspace

[IamNewToRiblix]

Exactly. But there is a problem. If Exploiters add childs to the Leaderboard the code will nonetheless execute.you should use something known CollectionService to Validate those frames.

[Forummer]

This is only an issue if the script listening for children to be added is a local script.

In the screenshot posted, the script is a server script.

[3KatW (Kat)]

I have found a method of my own, it’s kind of dumb. But here it is, so I disabled the script and used another script to enable it back after 10 seconds, but thank you for taking your time to write this response. I will try this code soon and inform you if it works or not.

[IamNewToRiblix]

Oh sorry didnt notice (charrsss)

[IamNewToRiblix]

Its well not dumb but if a new player joins at the same time the script will be disabled. Either enable it when player joins or u could try other methods.