'Text' property from TextLabel only updates once RichText is enabled

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#1

I’m experiencing a bug; I try to update the ‘Text’ property of a TextLabel with the following code


updateUIItemCount.Event:Connect(function()

	local function updateBillboard(customBillboard)
		local Container_Items = customBillboard:WaitForChild("Background_NPC"):WaitForChild("QuestionFrame"):WaitForChild("Container_Items")

		for _, itemFrame in ipairs(Container_Items:GetChildren()) do
			if not string.find(itemFrame.Name, "ItemFrame") then 
				continue 
			end

			local ViewportContainer = itemFrame:WaitForChild("ViewportContainer")
			local viewPort = ViewportContainer:FindFirstChildOfClass("ViewportFrame") 

			local AmountLabel = ViewportContainer:FindFirstChild("AmountLabel")
		
			local itemName = viewPort.Name
			local amount = tonumber(string.split(AmountLabel.Text, "/")[1])
			local inventoryAmount = tonumber(LocalPlayerData.Inventory[itemName])

		
			AmountLabel.Text = tostring(string.format(strFormatAmountVSInventoryAmount, amount, inventoryAmount))
		end
	end

	local NPCFolder = LocalPlayerData.Plot.plotFolder:WaitForChild("NPC_Folder")
	for _, npc in ipairs(NPCFolder:GetChildren()) do
		local billboard = npc:FindFirstChild(NPC_CustomBillboard.Name)
		if billboard then
			updateBillboard(billboard)
		end
	end

	local gui = getScreenGui()
	local billboard = gui:FindFirstChild(NPC_CustomBillboard.Name)
	if billboard then
		updateBillboard(billboard)
	end
end)

Everything works just fine; in the Property window, I notice that the text property is indeed the value I have set it to. Though, I don’t see the text visual on my screen. The visible property is true, the position is correct, everything should be fine. And everything does work once I set the rich text property to true.

Additionally, when I change the text in the property window manually, then the visual text inside of the textlabel does change.

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#2

Try and Ensure that PlayerItems has the correct data model for each item
and that Validate that AmountLabel.Text (or what ever you call it) is formatted right for every item

#3

I’m 100% sure that all that kinds of parameters are correct.

I’m convinced this is a studio bug.

Thanks for thinking with me though!

#4

Attaching a repro place file would help engineers looking over this!

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