Instance:GetAttributeChangedSignal and Instance.AttributeChanged both don't work

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#1

Currently both Instance:GetAttributeChangedSignal and Instance.AttributeChanged don’t work when I test them, I was testing them by using the code below:

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

ReplicatedStorage:SetAttribute("test",false)

local test = ReplicatedStorage:GetAttribute("test")

ReplicatedStorage:GetAttributeChangedSignal("test"):Connect(function() -- doesn't work
	print("hmm")
end)

ReplicatedStorage.AttributeChanged:Connect(function(attributeName) -- doesn't work
	print(attributeName)
	
	if attributeName == "test" then
		print("hmm")
	end
end)

print(test) -- prints 'false'

test = true

print(test) -- prints 'true'

Does anyone know if they are disabled at the moment or if there’s something wrong with the code?

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#2

I may be wrong but, I am pretty sure that you can’t set attributes to Roblox services, only instances.

#3

Since this is part of ReplicatedStorage, you are probably listening for client changes server-side, so that’s why it doesn’t work. And @PrismaticFruits is right, you can’t set attributes to services. Server-side ReplicatedStorage is individual replica, as well as client-side storage. Are you sure you are really changing attributes?

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#4

They don’t work for instances too, test them for yourself and you will see that they don’t work.

#5

Are you currently using LocalScripts?

#6

No, I’m using a script.

I think that it doesn’t matter if I’m using a script or a local script anyways.

#7

Maybe try removing this bit as there is something similar underneath it.

ReplicatedStorage:GetAttributeChangedSignal(“test”):Connect(function() – doesn’t work
print(“hmm”)
end)

#8

That won’t have any effect on the code.

#9

im thinking that this will just return the value and when you change it, the attribute wont change, but the value of the variable will. This is just my guess

#10

you are changing variable test, this does no effect to attribute.

change to ReplicatedStorage:SetAttribute("test", true) will work.

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#11

That doesn’t make any sense because both of them don’t work anyway and they are supposed to work whenever ‘test’ changes.

I tried that and it doesn’t fix the issue.

#12

Wrong. just changing variable does not take any effect to attributes.

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#13

Have you tested if they work for yourself?

If so then can you tell us what the code that you used looked like?

#14

script:

local instance = Instance.new("Part")
instance:SetAttribute("Something",false)
instance:GetAttributeChangedSignal("Something"):Connect(function()
	print("Changed.")
end)
instance:SetAttribute("Something",true)

log:

18:38:09.232  Changed.  -  Server - Script:4
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#15

Also this code did not work:

local instance = Instance.new("Part")
instance:SetAttribute("Something", false)
local Something = instance:GetAttribute("Something")
instance:GetAttributeChangedSignal("Something"):Connect(function()
	print("Changed.")
end)
Something = true

log:

(Nothing)
#16

Use :SetAttribute to change it. You’re just changing the “test” variable which is a boolean.

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#17

yes what i said, your just changing the variable but not the attribute value itself