Remote Event Not Updating Text in GUI Properly

[TrainGuy196]

Hi all,

I am facing an issue with updating the text in my Roblox game’s GUI using a RemoteEvent. The goal is to animate a title text in the menu when the RemoteEvent is triggered by a TextButton within the GUI.

The text doesn’t appear to be received by the client. Only the starting text seems be received once (as expected).
Below is a breakdown of the problem.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. The TextButton fires a RemoteEvent called UpdateMenuText with a string value that should update the text in the player’s menu GUI.
2. The client listens for this event and runs a function to animate the text in the menu.
3. The RemoteEvent is being fired, but the Handler Script is not updating/receiving the text.

Expected Behavior:

• When the RemoteEvent is fired, the client should receive the text and animate it properly.
• The text should smoothly update with an animation that reveals the full message one character at a time.

Actual Behavior:

• The event is triggered, the text is fired, but the Handler Script doesn’t receive the text.
• However, the text does not update visually on the GUI as expected, and no animation is played.

I’ve been trying to fix this for ages now, it might be the smallest thing I’ve missed. I’ve even thrown it ChatGPT’s way and it hasn’t fixed it.

I know the scripts are a little inefficient now but I’ve been trying everything I know to fix it.

I can post a video/screenshots of the menu and its hierarchy if needed.
Thanks all!

Scripts below🔽

Button Script (Local Script):

local textButton = script.Parent -- The TextButton the player clicks to open the settings menu

local hoverSound = textButton:FindFirstChild("Hover")
local clickSound = textButton:FindFirstChild("Click")

local hoverColor = Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255) -- Default text color (white)
local normalColor = Color3.fromRGB(200, 200, 200) -- Hover text color (light gray)

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local UpdateMenuText = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("UpdateMenuText")

local SettingsMenu = textButton.Parent.Parent.Settings
local Music = textButton.Parent.Parent.Music
local EQ = Music["EQ AJST"]
EQ.Enabled = false

-- Bool value for knowing if the settings menu is opened or not
local OpenCloseBool = SettingsMenu:WaitForChild("Open/Close")

local function onButtonClick()
	local targetText -- Declare the targetText variable

	if OpenCloseBool.Value then
		-- If 'Open/Close' bool is true, close the settings menu
		SettingsMenu.Visible = false
		OpenCloseBool.Value = false
		EQ.Enabled = false
		Music.Volume = 0.3
		-- Set the text to be fired when closing
		targetText = "TrainGuy196's Menu Testing Place"
	else
		-- If 'Open/Close' bool is false, open the settings menu
		SettingsMenu.Visible = true
		OpenCloseBool.Value = true
		EQ.Enabled = true
		Music.Volume = 0.13
		-- Set the text to be fired when opening
		targetText = "TrainGuy196's Settings"
	end

	-- Fire UpdateMenuText to update the text and print the fired text
	UpdateMenuText:FireServer(targetText)  -- Pass the text you want here
	print("Fired text:", targetText)  -- Print the exact text being fired

	if clickSound then
		clickSound:Play()
	end
end

local function onMouseEnter()
	if hoverSound then
		hoverSound:Play()
	end
	textButton.TextColor3 = hoverColor -- Change text color on hover
end

local function onMouseLeave()
	textButton.TextColor3 = normalColor -- Reset text color when the mouse leaves
end

textButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(onButtonClick)
textButton.MouseEnter:Connect(onMouseEnter)
textButton.MouseLeave:Connect(onMouseLeave)

Handler Script (Local Script):

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local LoadEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("LoadMainMenu")
local UpdateMenuText = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("UpdateMenuText")

-- Wait for the menu GUI to be added to the PlayerGui
local MenuScreenGUI = Player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"):WaitForChild("Menu")
local Backdrop = MenuScreenGUI.Backdrop
local Music = Backdrop.Music
local MenuText = Backdrop["Text/Button"].MainText
local TextSound = MenuText.Sound

local lastText = "" -- Variable to track the last animated text

-- Function to animate the text with a typing effect
local function animateText(targetText, delay)
	local currentText = "TrainGuy196's "
	MenuText.Text = currentText -- Set initial text to "TrainGuy196's"

	-- Stop the current animation (if any)
	local currentTween = MenuText:FindFirstChild("Tween")
	if currentTween then
		currentTween:Cancel()
		currentTween:Destroy()
	end

	-- Animate the starting text ("TrainGuy196's")
	for i = 1, #currentText do
		MenuText.Text = string.sub(currentText, 1, i)
		TextSound:Play()
		task.wait(delay) -- Wait for the delay before adding the next letter
	end

	-- Animate the additional text after "TrainGuy196's"
	for i = 1, #targetText do
		MenuText.Text = "TrainGuy196's " .. string.sub(targetText, 1, i)
		TextSound:Play()
		task.wait(delay) -- Wait for the delay before adding the next letter
	end
end

local function Load()
	Music:Play()
	MenuScreenGUI.Enabled = true
	animateText("Menu Testing Place", 0.06) -- Animate the initial text on menu load
end

local lastText = ""

local function updatetext(targetText)
	if targetText and type(targetText) == "string" and targetText ~= lastText then
		print("Received target text:", targetText)  -- Debugging print
		animateText(targetText, 0.06) -- Animate the text based on the received target text
		lastText = targetText -- Update lastText to prevent repeating animation
	else
		print("Error: targetText is nil or the same as the last text.")
	end
end

UpdateMenuText.OnClientEvent:Connect(updatetext)
LoadEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(Load)

[Mr_Spokes]

I’m pretty sure you would want to use a BindableEvent (same machine) in this situation instead of a RemoteEvent (server to client or vice versa)

BindableEvent | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

[TrainGuy196]

Thank you so much!

That makes complete sense! As its only client to client.
I’ve pretty much just changed the RemoteEvent to a BindableEvent and changed FireServer to just Fire. And it works a dream now.

Your a legend!
Thanks again!