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ScriptContext
Inherits from: Instance → Object
This service controls all BaseScript objects. Most of the properties and methods of this service are locked for internal use.
Inherits from: Instance
Memory category: Instances
Tags: NotCreatable, Service, NotReplicated
Methods
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ScriptContext:EnableCoverage | () | Marks an instance and its descendant scripts for code-coverage tracking. Requires PluginOrOpenCloud security. |
| ScriptContext:GetCoverageStats | Array | Returns code-coverage statistics for scripts marked by EnableCoverage(). Requires PluginOrOpenCloud security. |
| ScriptContext:SetTimeout | () | Limits how long a script is allowed to run without yielding. |
Inherited from Instance
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Instance:AddTag | () | Applies a tag to the instance. |
| Instance:children | Instances | Returns an array of the object's children. |
| Instance:ClearAllChildren | () | This method destroys all of an instance's children. |
| Instance:Clone | Instance | Create a copy of an instance and all its descendants, ignoring instances that are not Archivable. |
| Instance:clone | Instance | |
| Instance:Destroy | () | Sets the Instance.Parent property to nil, locks the Instance.Parent property, disconnects all connections, and calls Destroy() on all children. |
| Instance:destroy | () | |
| Instance:FindFirstAncestor | Instance? | Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Instance.Name is equal to the given name. |
| Instance:FindFirstAncestorOfClass | Instance? | Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Object.ClassName is equal to the given className. |
| Instance:FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA | Instance? | Returns the first ancestor of the Instance for whom Object:IsA() returns true for the given className. |
| Instance:FindFirstChild | Instance? | Returns the first child of the Instance found with the given name. |
| Instance:findFirstChild | Instance | |
| Instance:FindFirstChildOfClass | Instance? | Returns the first child of the Instance whose ClassName is equal to the given class name. |
| Instance:FindFirstChildWhichIsA | Instance? | Returns the first child of the Instance for whom Object:IsA() returns true for the given className. |
| Instance:FindFirstDescendant | Instance? | Returns the first descendant found with the given Instance.Name. |
| Instance:GetActor | Actor? | Returns the Actor associated with the Instance, if any. |
| Instance:GetAttribute | Variant | Returns the value which has been assigned to the given attribute name. |
| Instance:GetAttributeChangedSignal | RBXScriptSignal | Returns an event that fires when the given attribute changes. |
| Instance:GetAttributes | Dictionary | Returns a dictionary of the instance's attributes. |
| Instance:GetChildren | Instances | Returns an array containing all of the instance's children. |
| Instance:getChildren | Instances | |
| Instance:GetDebugId | string | Returns a coded string of the debug ID used internally by Roblox. |
| Instance:GetDescendants | Instances | Returns an array containing all of the descendants of the instance. |
| Instance:GetFullName | string | Returns a string describing the instance's ancestry. |
| Instance:GetStyled | Variant | Returns the styled or explicitly modified value of the specified property, or else the default property value if it hasn't been styled/modified. |
| Instance:GetStyledPropertyChangedSignal | RBXScriptSignal | Returns an event that fires when the given style property changes on the instance. |
| Instance:GetTags | Array | Gets an array of all tags applied to the instance. |
| Instance:HasTag | boolean | Check whether the instance has a given tag. |
| Instance:IsAncestorOf | boolean | Returns true if an Instance is an ancestor of the given descendant. |
| Instance:IsDescendantOf | boolean | Returns true if an Instance is a descendant of the given ancestor. |
| Instance:isDescendantOf | boolean | |
| Instance:IsPropertyModified | boolean | Returns true if the value stored in the specified property is not equal to the code-instantiated default. |
| Instance:QueryDescendants | Instances | Returns an array containing all descendants of the instance that match the selector string. |
| Instance:Remove | () | Sets the object's Parent to nil, and does the same for all its descendants. |
| Instance:remove | () | |
| Instance:RemoveTag | () | Removes a tag from the instance. |
| Instance:ResetPropertyToDefault | () | Resets a property to its default value. |
| Instance:SetAttribute | () | Sets the attribute with the given name to the given value. |
| Instance:WaitForChild | Instance | Returns the child of the Instance with the given name. If the child does not exist, it will yield the current thread until it does. |
Inherited from Object
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Object:GetPropertyChangedSignal | RBXScriptSignal | Get an event that fires when a given property of the object changes. |
| Object:IsA | boolean | Returns true if an object's class matches or inherits from a given class. |
| Object:isA | boolean |
ScriptContext:EnableCoverage
Requires PluginOrOpenCloud security; not callable from game scripts. Registers instance as a coverage root so the engine records per-line and per-function execution coverage for instance and every script descended from it. Retrieve the recorded data with ScriptContext:GetCoverageStats().
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| instance | Instance | The instance to track; coverage is recorded for this instance and every script descended from it. |
Returns
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| () |
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| security | None |
| thread safety | Unsafe |
| capabilities | ["PluginOrOpenCloud"] |
ScriptContext:GetCoverageStats
Requires PluginOrOpenCloud security; not callable from experience scripts. Returns an array of coverage results, one entry per tracked script. Each entry is a table with a Script field (the script Instance) and a GetHits() function. Calling GetHits() returns two arrays: per-line hit counts, where -1 marks a line that was never executed or was excluded, and per-function records containing each function's Name, Line, and Hits.
Like ScriptContext:EnableCoverage(), this method raises an error if coverage collection is not enabled.
Returns
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Array | An array of per-script coverage tables, each with a Script field and a GetHits function for retrieving line and function hit counts. |
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| security | None |
| thread safety | Unsafe |
| capabilities | ["PluginOrOpenCloud"] |
ScriptContext:SetTimeout
Sets the watchdog time limit that the engine applies to running scripts. The value becomes the per-resumption execution budget: if a thread runs for longer than seconds since it was last resumed without yielding, the watchdog aborts it with the runtime error Script timeout: exhausted allowed execution time.
The timeout defaults to 0, which disables the watchdog so that scripts may run without any time limit. Call this method with a positive value to enable enforcement, or pass 0 to turn it back off.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| seconds | double | The maximum time, in seconds, that a script may run between yields before the watchdog interrupts it. A value of 0 disables the timeout. |
Returns
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| () |
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| security | PluginSecurity |
| thread safety | Unsafe |
Events
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ScriptContext.Error | Fired when an error occurs. |
Inherited from Instance
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Instance.AncestryChanged | Fires when the Instance.Parent property of this object or one of its ancestors is changed. | |
| Instance.AttributeChanged | Fires whenever an attribute is changed on the Instance. | |
| Instance.ChildAdded | Fires after an object is parented to this Instance. | |
| Instance.childAdded | ||
| Instance.ChildRemoved | Fires after a child is removed from this Instance. | |
| Instance.DescendantAdded | Fires after a descendant is added to the Instance. | |
| Instance.DescendantRemoving | Fires immediately before a descendant of the Instance is removed. | |
| Instance.Destroying | Fires immediately before (or is deferred until after) the instance is destroyed via Instance:Destroy(). | |
| Instance.StyledPropertiesChanged | Fires whenever any style property is changed on the instance, including when a property is set to nil. |
Inherited from Object
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Object.Changed | Fires immediately after a property of the object changes, with some limitations. |
ScriptContext.Error
Fires when an unhandled error occurs while running a script, reporting the error to any listening code. The engine raises this event from its error-reporting path when a thread terminates with an error, passing the error message, a formatted stackTrace string, and the script that was running.
This event does not fire for errors raised by the watchdog when a script exceeds its execution-time limit (see ScriptContext:SetTimeout()).
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| message | string | The error message describing what went wrong. | |
| stackTrace | string | The call stack at the point the error occurred, formatted as a string. | |
| script | Instance | The script in which the error occurred. |
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| security | None |
| capabilities | ["Logging"] |
Code samples: View on Creator Hub (ScriptContext-Error1).
Properties
Inherited from Instance
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Instance.Archivable | boolean | Determines if an Instance and its descendants can be cloned using Instance:Clone(), and can be saved/published. |
| Instance.archivable | boolean | |
| Instance.Capabilities | SecurityCapabilities | The set of capabilities allowed to be used for scripts inside this container. |
| Instance.IsInSandbox | boolean | Indicates whether the instance is inside a sandboxed container. |
| Instance.Name | string | A non-unique identifier of the Instance. |
| Instance.Parent | Instance | Determines the hierarchical parent of the Instance. |
| Instance.PredictionMode | PredictionMode | Reflects the client-side prediction mode applied to the instance under server-authoritative physics. |
| Instance.RobloxLocked | boolean | A deprecated property that used to protect CoreGui objects. |
| Instance.Sandboxed | boolean | When enabled, the instance can only access abilities in its Capabilities list. |
| Instance.UniqueId | UniqueId | A unique identifier for the instance. |
Inherited from Object
| Name | Type / Returns | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Object.ClassName | string | A read-only string representing the class this Object belongs to. |
| Object.className | string |