Restart Function when called again

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#1

Trying to tween a text label to show the areas name, but when I enter another area it overwrites the text but still keeps tweening the last call.

Heres the code

 function AreaName(Name)
	label.Text = "["..Name.."]"
	script.Enter:Play()
	tweenservice:Create(label,TweenInfo.new(0.5),{TextTransparency = 0}):Play()
	wait(3)
	tweenservice:Create(label,TweenInfo.new(0.5),{TextTransparency = 1}):Play()
end

And

task.spawn(function() AreaName(v.Name) end)

I want to cancel the last function call and start another one, like retween.

#2

i don’t know about cancelling function calls, but you can pause / cancel tweens if you keep a reference to them when you create them

check out this link and look at the methods; you will see :Pause() and :Cancel()

these can only be called on tween objects though, so when you create them using :Create() from TweenService, keep a reference to them in a variable or something

edit: updated link to the newer API documentation

#3 
function AreaName(Name)
	label.Text = "["..Name.."]"
	script.Enter:Play()
	tweenservice:Create(label,TweenInfo.new(0.5),{TextTransparency = 0}):Play()
	wait(3)
	tweenservice:Create(label,TweenInfo.new(0.5),{TextTransparency = 1}):Play()
end

local Task = task.spawn(AreaName, v.Name) --You can pass references to function values (additional arguments are passed to the referenced function).
task.cancel(Task) --Cancel the current task before starting a new one.
#4

Wouldn’t .cancel stop the script? So if it was canceled mid function it wouldn’t tween and keep the message visible?

#5

Cancel would stop the execution of the task, you’d then need to create a new task in order to ‘restart’ the function.