Text wont change

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#1

I am having a problem with this script:

local GUITextChange = script.Parent
local Text = GUITextChange.Text
wait(13)
Text = ("e scp")

I can’t figure out why the text wont change. Here is another script that I think could be interfering with it.

local tweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")
local tweenInfo = TweenInfo.new(
	5, --Time
	Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, --EasingStyle
	Enum.EasingDirection.Out, --EasingDirection
	0, --Repeat count
	false, --Reverses if true
	0 --Delay time
)
local tween = tweenService:Create(script.Parent, tweenInfo, {TextTransparency = 1})
tween:Play()

wait(8)

tweenInfo = TweenInfo.new(
	5, --Time
	Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, --EasingStyle
	Enum.EasingDirection.Out, --EasingDirection
	0, --Repeat count
	false, --Reverses if true
	0 --Delay time
)
tween2 = tweenService:Create(script.Parent, tweenInfo, {TextTransparency = 0})
tween2:Play()
#2

Change Text to text for it to work
local text = GUITextChange.Text

#3

Your problem is that you’re just reassigning a variable to another value, not changing the Text property like I’m assuming you want to.

It should look something more like this:

wait(13)
script.Parent.Text = "e scp"

Where the path to the object whose text you want to change is so short, there’s not really a problem with leaving your two variables out. Just keep in mind that when you assign a variable to a property, it just assigns it the same value as that property. It does not create a direct reference to the property itself.

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#4

When having “Text” roblox thinks its the properties so if you want the varible to be called text, it must be all lowercase

#5

That’s actually not true. You can have a variable named “Text” if you want. It’s not a protected or pre-defined keyword.

If you want to access the Text property of an object, you do have to be case-sensitive, but there are no such restrictions on user-defined variable names.

#6

@334901766 No, it doesn’t. Please don’t state misinformation. When you index, it will avoid variable names. So even if you have a variable named Text, when you index it will not use the variable.

The only way to use a variable as a way to index something is to use brackets. For example:

local a = "1"

script.Parent.a -- it will not use the variable
script.Parent[a] -- it will use the variable

@OP, that is not how you set a property a new value. What you’re doing to the Text variable is setting the value of the Text property.

To change the properties, you’d do what @ChiefWildin said.

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#7

It does? When I tried local Text when I started scripting it didnt work but local text did

#8

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