How to send updated data to the client?

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#1

I assume there are probably some threads about this topic and I’m pretty sure I’ve made one in the past however how do I send data to the client when I need to update something? When the player first joins my game I send data to the client to like load stuff and display things, but then if the player makes a purchase or something I wanna be able to update their gold frame and in the shop I wanna update the new amount they own etc.

Like what I do is like when the player buys something I just as I do the purchase on the server I fire clients with the new gold cost, but then like yeah idk hopefully this makes sense lol. I thought maybe I could use like metatables and then just like when something inside the players data dictionary changes I can just fire the client and whatever, but i don’t think that would work.

#2

You can use RemoteEvent:FireClient(Player) and RemoteEvents.OnClientEvent to send the new data to a new client and receive it with a localscript.

#3

I would personnaly ask the server from the client to receive the data, and it’ll be more safe!
I’ll use Remote Functions

#4

That’s what I’m using although for some reason the OnClientEvent doesn’t always fire which is really weird.

I have my FireClient and I thought all scripts that have the OnClientEvent (if it’s the same event) would like run, but apparently not I guess? lol.

I have this in one of my scripts

dataEvent:FireClient(player,data)

And then I have this in 2 of my local scripts and yet for some reason, only one of them runs.

dataEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(receivedData)
	goldText.Text = receivedData["gold"]
	data = receivedData
end)
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