Autofill Text Help

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#1

I’m attempting to create an autofill system for usernames, and am having a bit of trouble. I have created the function that actually gets the player, and calculates all of the characters left to fill in the box, which works fine. However, I’m stuck as to how I could get it to actually fill the text in. This is what I’ve tried so far:

script.Parent.Username:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Text"):Connect(function()
	if string.len(script.Parent.Username.Text) ~= 0 then
		local player = FUNCTIONS:getPlayer()
		if player then
			local UsernameLeft = string.sub(player.Name, string.len(script.Parent.Username.Text)+1) -- gets the part of the username left
			for i = 0, #script.Parent.Username.Text do
				script.Parent.Username.Fill.Text = " "..UsernameLeft
			end
		end
	end
end)

I’m unsure as to how I could get it to actually add a space each time instead of keeping the one.

Username Input GUI Script
Username Input GUI Script
#2 
local f, g, u
script.Parent.Username:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Text"):Connect(function()
    if string.len(script.Parent.Username.Text) ~= 0 then
    	local player = FUNCTIONS:getPlayer()
    	if player then
    		u = string.sub(player.Name, string.len(script.Parent.Username.Text)+1) -- gets the part of the username left
    		f = string.len(script.Parent.Username.Text)
			g = table.create(f, " ")
			script.Parent.Username.Fill.Text = table.concat(g) .. u
    	end
    end
end)
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#3

Hmm. It worked, however, with different usernames it can look awkward. image
Is there another way to do this instead of having two separate TextBoxes and TextLabels and just filling in the rest?

#4

You can change a TextLabel position with this

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#5

I know this post is old but you could also use the text box’s property PlaceHolderText and that might work too.

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