Why doesn't my text change?

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#1

It’s either the script or the GUI

I made a text label inside a ScreenGUI and made a script inside the text label.

I made the script change the text which worked, but you need to reset every time you want to see it update.
How do I make it update every 1 second?

#2

can you provide context(The script, or the GUI, or a download.)

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#3

Well you can put the code into a while loop.

while wait(1) do
	-- code here
end
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#4

I did

local text = script.Parent

local value = game.Workspace.Value

while true do
value = 300
text.Text = value.Value
wait(1)
value.Value = value.Value - 1
end

I need it to update the text every second*

#5

i did try it unless I did something wrong

#6

are you getting an error of sorts

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#7

You’re setting the value back to 300 every time the loop is called

Try this

local text = script.Parent

local value = game.Workspace.Value
value.Value = 300

while true do
    text.Text = value.Value
    wait(1)
    value.Value = value.Value - 1
end
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#8

I’m not, it just updates the text after resetting my character

#9

Try

local value = workspace:WaitForChild("Value")

value.Value = 300

while wait(1) do

script.Parent.Text = tostring(value.Value)

value.Value += -1

end
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#10

Yea, thats actually what I’m trying to do. Making a sort of minigame that restarts.

#11

Does that work with words too?

Okay, I guess I can change my type of value to words and it work with words.

#12

Oh your trying to make a timer?

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#13

You don’t need to reference it inside the TextLabel as that’ll change for every player that joins the game, the way you have it now is that if this is a ServerScript, the value will change in different intevals depending on how much players there are

You could just put the value inside ReplicatedStorage, leave the changing script inside ServerScriptService, and put a LocalScript in the TextLabel to detect when the Value gets changed:

--Server Script
local Value = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Value")

Value.Value = 300

while wait(1) do
    script.Parent.Text = tostring(Value.Value)
    Value.Value -= 1
end

--LocalScript inside the TextLabel
local TextLabel = script.Parent
local Value = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Value")

Value.Changed:Connect(function(NewValue)
    TextLabel.Text = tostring(NewValue)
end)
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#14

That will work too. I honestly didn’t think of that