Working with clones

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#1

Hi,

So I got a query with clones which is bugging me.

Above is a screenshot with what I am working with, so I understand how to work with clones and how to call it. However, I can not wrap my head around working with changing the properties. So I want to change the textlabel “Name” to the player who joins. If someone from this generous community can explain how I can call this textlabel and work with its properties that’ll be greatly appreciated.

#2

Your issue here is probably due to the fact that you have the TextLabel “named” Name. This is causing interference with the “Name” property of the ScrollingFrame. I would advise you change the TextLabel in ScrollingFrame called “Name” to something like playerName.

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#3

Just changed that now, however my question is how I can call this “playerName” component in this script in order to work with its properties?

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local frame = script.Parent
local function create_player_gui(plr)
	if frame:FindFirstChild(plr.Name) then return end
	print("Making Gui for "..plr.Name)
	local copy = frame:Clone()
	name.Text = plr.Name
	name.Name = plr.Name
	name.Parent = frame


end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	create_player_gui(plr)
end)
Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
	create_player_gui(plr)
end)
#4

Are you trying to create a new scrollingframe, or a new characterpick for each player?

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#5

I’ll be cloning the character pick for each player.

#7

You can access children of an Instance with .

local copy = frame:Clone()

-- index ScrollingFrame inside of cloned CharacterPick
local scrollingFrame = copy.ScrollingFrame

-- index avatar, name, and status labels inside of ScrollingFrame
local Avatar = scrollingFrame.Avatar
local Name = scrollingFrame.playerName
local Status = scrollingFrame.Status

-- set properties of the indexed labels
Name.Text = plr.Name
Name.Name = plr.Name
-- etc