While do loop isnt working

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#1

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    I want to know why my while loop isnt working, here it is:
while script.Parent.Enabled == true do
    wait()
    print("Gui is enabled")
end

  1. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    Nothing prints in the output whenever the gui is enabled.

  2. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
    I have tried Devforum and YT

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#2

Why do you need this script? I feel like there is a way better way to achieve what you want to do. Also, what type of script is this and where is it located?

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#3

its a local script inside of a screengui, this is what im trying to do, its kinda complicated to explain why i need it

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#4

Just explain it.

#5

Is the screengui enabled or disabled when the game starts? While this script is running

Or are you trying to change it from disabled to enabled while this is running

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#6 
-- Should be a LocalScript not a ServerScript
local Gui = script.Parent

Gui.Changed:Connect(function()
    print("Gui is", Gui.Enabled and "enabled" or "disabled")
end)

why a while loop?

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#7

Its enabled when the game starts

#8

I have a feeling the GUI is disabled when the startergui gets loaded, the script gets enabled runs the code ends the loop, then the startergui gets enabled.

Try this:

while task.wait(1) do
    if script.Parent.Enabled then
        print("GUI enabled")
    else
        print("GUI disabled")
    end
end
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#9

Mind showing what script.Parent is? (as a screenshot)

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#10

Trust me, the local script is in the gui, im a pretty experience scripter

#11

If your GUI gets disabled then it will break out of the loop which will then stop the loop from running if the GUI then gets re-enabled. To fix this, and have better performance, you can use the GetPropertyChangedSignal method to detect when the Enabled property of the GUI has been changed.

#12

See but i can’t do task wait (1) because its delayed by a second which i can’t have and i also dont wanna put the code in a while true do loop because it lags my game in studio

#13

How about at the very top of your script you print this:

print(script.Parent.Enabled)
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#14

You can use task.wait() with no parameters just like wait(). task.wait() is executed 60 times a second whereas wait() is executed 33 times a second. Also having the wait() call at the top of the loop will delay the code in the loop when the game is first run.

Checking if a property is equal to a certain value 33 times a second will also affect the performance of the game drastically for the player, where something like Changed or GetPropertyChangedSignal may come in handy :slight_smile:

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#15

again, I don’t know what you are exactly wanting. Do you want to have it print out 33 times a second, or do you want it to print only when the property has changed?

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#16

I can’t do that, i want to run some code while the gui is enabled, i just put print there so you could get an idea

#17

I just want it to print when the gui is enabled

#18

Yea that the thing i don’t wanna use while true do or task.wait because it lags my game, thats the whole point of this devforum

#19

You could probably change it to:

while not script.Parent.Enabled do
    task.wait()
end
while script.Parent.Enabled do
    print("GUI enabled")
    task.wait()
end

Not saying this is the best way to do this though, but the spec is a bit vague so…

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#20

why just do a loop with task.wait()?