Tool Gui not updating?

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1

Hey all,
I’m having an issue where the Gui on my tool is not updating. If someone could tell me why it isn’t working that’d be greatly appreciated. I tried looking up multiple resources but none of them were helpful.

Video of the issue:
https://gyazo.com/81f2cbbf4fb4e043d628a659ebb7d8a7

As you can see in the Output bar, the print comes through but the text doesn’t update :confused:

Local Script:

	local text = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Handle").SurfaceGui.Frame.currentLevel.Text
	local mag = (script.Parent.Handle.Position - game.Workspace.enemyPart.Position).magnitude
	local static1 = script.Parent.Handle.SurfaceGui.Frame.static1
	local static2 = script.Parent.Handle.SurfaceGui.Frame.static2
	
	static1.ImageTransparency = 1
	wait(.025)
	static1.ImageTransparency = 0.75
	
	if mag > 75 then
		
		text = "No trace of anomaly detected."
		print("No trace of anomaly detected.")
		
	elseif mag < 75 and mag >= 55 then
		
		text = "Small trace of anomaly detected."
		print("Small trace of anomaly detected.")
		
	elseif mag < 55 and mag >= 35 then
		
		text = "Nominal trace of anomaly detected."
		print("Nominal trace of anomaly detected.")	
		
	elseif mag < 35 and mag >= 15 then
		
		text = "Huge trace of anomaly detected!"
		print("Huge amount detected")
		
	elseif mag < 15 then
		
		text = "#@*FgJH&^#"
		print("#@*FgJH&^#")
	end
end
2

i believe you may to change the variable text from

script.Parent:WaitForChild(“Handle”).SurfaceGui.Frame.currentLevel.Text
to
script.Parent:WaitForChild(“Handle”).SurfaceGui.Frame.currentLevel
and manipulate text by

if mag > 75 then

	text.Text = "No trace of anomaly detected."
	print("No trace of anomaly detected.")

end

if this works you can probably change local text to be local currentLevel so you can do currentLevel.Text to be more readable for you. I hope this helps :slight_smile:

3

Huh, how does that work?

Nonetheless it fixed it and thanks for the quick reply :smiley:

4

It’s because when you first assigned the text variable, you assigned it to your TextLabels string name and not the object itself.

Essentially you assigned this variable to the string Text, and each time you reassigned it based in the state of mag, you are simply changing a string to another string, but not reassigning the TextLabel objects Text property.

Let’s say you have a TextLabel in a frame. TextLabel is an object and TextLabel.Text will return the string text of the object.

So if you have a variable text set equal to TextLabel.Text it will equal the string value returned from Text.

local TextLabel = Frame.TextLabel – object TextLabel
local name = TextLabel.Text --string text property

TextLabel.Text == “foo”
name == “bar”

print(TextLabel.Text, name) – would print “foo”, “bar”

hope this helps

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