Unable to Create GUI From ModuleScript

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#1

Hey there! I’m currently trying to make a GUI Notification module, I will open-source it once it is finished. I am running into an issue though. I cannot create a new UI element, but I can create a ScreenGui. Let me show the code.

NotifyFunctions.CreateServerNotification = function(ignore, text, font)
	print(text)
	print(font)
	--//For Loop to Get all Players' GUI\\--
	for i, v in ipairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
		local GUI = v:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
		local NotifyGUI = GUI:FindFirstChild("Notifications")--Have to use :FindFirstChild() to see if we need to create a new one
		print(NotifyGUI)
			if NotifyGUI == nil then
				local NotifyGUI = Instance.new("ScreenGui", GUI)
				NotifyGUI.Name = "Notifications"
		end
		
		--//Making GUI\\--
		print("Making")
		local notification = Instance.new("TextLabel", NotifyGUI)

		
		--//Editing Properties\\--
		notification.Text = tostring(text)
		notification.Font = font
	end
	
end

Basically what’s happening here is I’m getting the text fired, and I loop through all the players to see if they have a certain GUI, and if not I create a new one. That works. After that, I tried to clone a TextLabel parented to the Module. That did nothing, so I tried running Instance.new(). That does nothing in the output as well as nothing to the game. Does anyone know why? Any help is appreciated!

#2

it should be pairs not ipairs

it should be :GetPlayers()

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#3

Thanks! That would make more sense. I totally forgot :GetPlayers() existed. It still does the same thing, though. It adds a ScreenGui, but no TextLabel.

#4

He can and should use ipairs as the iterator because he is iterating over an array, not a dictionary.

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