Derma Not Initializing

[Triage]

So recently been working on a little neat and helpful player menu and I've noticed that my derma menus are not initializing when I fist join in the game. I get this error.

[ERROR] lua/autorun/client/cl_menu.lua:7: attempt to index local 'menuFrame' (a nil value)
  1. playerMenu - lua/autorun/client/cl_menu.lua:7
   2. unknown - lua/autorun/client/cl_menu.lua:18

Even when I put this into autorun/client with if SERVER then end at the top I still get this exact error.

If I edit the file though it loads in properly once I save it though.

Any ideas?

[Exploderguy]

Please post your code otherwise we cannot help you

[Triage]

[QUOTE=Exploderguy;47643332]Please post your code otherwise we cannot help you[/QUOTE]

print ( "Menu Initializing..." )

function playerMenu()
	if IsValid(menuFrame) then menuFrame:Remove() end

	local menuFrame = vgui.Create( "DFrame" )
		menuFrame:SetSize( 1024, 512 )
		menuFrame:SetPos(5, 5)
		menuFrame:SetTitle( "Menu" )
		menuFrame:SetVisible( true )
		menuFrame:SetDraggable( false )
		menuFrame:SetBackgroundBlur( true )
		menuFrame:ShowCloseButton ( true )
		menuFrame:MakePopup()
		menuFrame:Center()
	
	local menuPanel = vgui.Create( "DPanel", menuFrame)
		menuPanel:SetSize( 800, 380 )
		menuPanel:SetPos ( 5, 5 )
		menuPanel:Center()
end

playerMenu()

print( "Menu Initialized." )

[Exploderguy]

Try removing the IsValid(MenuFrame) line. Somthing might be throwing a false positive

[Kamshak]

Perhaps you're loading before the DFrame is loaded, try

[lua]
print ( "Menu Initializing..." )

function playerMenu()
if IsValid(menuFrame) then menuFrame:Remove() end

local menuFrame = vgui.Create( "DFrame" )
menuFrame:SetSize( 1024, 512 )
menuFrame:SetPos(5, 5)
menuFrame:SetTitle( "Menu" )
menuFrame:SetVisible( true )
menuFrame:SetDraggable( false )
menuFrame:SetBackgroundBlur( true )
menuFrame:ShowCloseButton ( true )
menuFrame:MakePopup()
menuFrame:Center()

local menuPanel = vgui.Create( "DPanel", menuFrame)
menuPanel:SetSize( 800, 380 )
menuPanel:SetPos ( 5, 5 )
menuPanel:Center()
end

hook.Add( "InitPostEntity", "InitMen", function( )
playerMenu()
print( "Menu Initialized." )
end )

[/lua]

[Triage]

[QUOTE=Kamshak;47646427]Perhaps you're loading before the DFrame is loaded, try

[lua]
print ( "Menu Initializing..." )

function playerMenu()
if IsValid(menuFrame) then menuFrame:Remove() end

local menuFrame = vgui.Create( "DFrame" )
menuFrame:SetSize( 1024, 512 )
menuFrame:SetPos(5, 5)
menuFrame:SetTitle( "Menu" )
menuFrame:SetVisible( true )
menuFrame:SetDraggable( false )
menuFrame:SetBackgroundBlur( true )
menuFrame:ShowCloseButton ( true )
menuFrame:MakePopup()
menuFrame:Center()

local menuPanel = vgui.Create( "DPanel", menuFrame)
menuPanel:SetSize( 800, 380 )
menuPanel:SetPos ( 5, 5 )
menuPanel:Center()
end

hook.Add( "InitPostEntity", "InitMen", function( )
playerMenu()
print( "Menu Initialized." )
end )

[/lua][/QUOTE]

That seem to work. Thank you!