Voting system

[sudden hamlet]

Hello, I am making a mode voting for my game and got the script shown in the picture. I tested the tables. They are fine. But my function does nothing. I want to change a Textlabels text to 1,2,3 etc. deepending on how many votes it got meaning I find the matching "Counter" for the "Buttons" so i = 1 is the textlable and the button and they are together. So if you click Buttons [1] I want Counters[1] to show a number or better said. Change their text to text +=1 but as I said, clicking the buttons just does nothing. No errors, no printing.

[fading marten]

use playergui not startergui

[lilac wadi]

Maybe let server handle the information. Do this on the client (use playergui) use remoteEvents to fire it to the server to get that information and fire it back to all clients. Im not an expert but this works for me. I explain it very short tho, let me know if you need further help.

[sudden hamlet]

I tried that and it didn‘t work. But I think I maybe used it wrong. How would you acces it (and which line)

[fading marten]

localplayer.playergui

[sudden hamlet]

Nope

can‘t be localplayer because it is a script not a local script

[fading marten]

nope

can't be a script because ui interactions only occur on the client, so it must be a localscript.

[sudden hamlet]

maybe that is the problem then

[fading marten]

part of the problem, yes. using startergui instead of playergui is the other part.

[sudden hamlet]

but I defenetly use a normal script rn and there localplayer doesn‘t exist

[sudden hamlet]

I had exactly that explanation somewhere else back a few weeks. Why does that matter?

what is the diff between the 2?

Someone explained it to me but I just didn‘t understand it. He said like you basically don‘t use startergui in scripts and always use playergui because startergui is only the place to store it. Is that right like this?

[fading marten]

https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/StarterGui

When a Player.Character spawns, the contents of their PlayerGui (if any) are emptied. Children of the StarterGui are then copied along with their descendants into the PlayerGui.
--> https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/PlayerGui
PlayerGui is a container that holds a player's UI. If a ScreenGui is a descendant, then any GuiObject inside of the ScreenGui will be drawn to the player's screen. Any LocalScript will also run if it is inserted into a PlayerGui.

or in simpler terms, startergui is basically just a folder like replicatedstorage. only playergui actually functions as an actual gui.

[sudden hamlet]

And why a local script? My idea in my head was: I have a text. That text should be changed for everyone. So the server has to change it :/… SCRIPT BETTER

[fading marten]

interactions only occur on the client.

[sudden hamlet]

so startergui is basically a store and you acces it with playergui in a script?

[fading marten]

you can mess with a player's playergui from the server like changing a textlabel's text, but you cannot connect to button clicks and other interactions.

[sudden hamlet]

so I‘d need 2 scripts flr it to work? One for the button - the button fires a remote - the event fires a script which changes the text?

[fading marten]

it's the same situation as how you cannot get a player's mouse ray from the server, its only available on the client and you have to send it to the server using remotes if you want to use it on the server

[sudden hamlet]

like that?

[fading marten]

that's one way to do it

if its something that should show on all player's playerguis, then you will need to detour through the server yes

[sudden hamlet]

So I have like a function: Button.Activated:FireOnServerEvent blah blah blah

and then a script: local textlable
change text to blah blah blah (get the text, turn it to a number, add 1, change it to a string)

[sick drift]

** You are now Level 4! **

[sudden hamlet]

because rn the text is 0. If I turn that into a number with tonumber it should be 0 and if I add 1 and use tostring I can make 1 the text of the textlabel, right?

cause I never used tonimber/string thatway

[fading marten]

if you want to treat the text like a number you will need tonumber, yes

[sudden hamlet]

but if I have 0 and say tonumber, I also get 0 as a number, right?

[fading marten]

roblox will coerce the number back to a string so you don't need tostring(), unless you are writing in --!strict mode

[sudden hamlet]

I think it is easier to understand

[fading marten]

;compile lua lua local x=tonumber("1a2b3c") print(x+1)

[crisp tulip]

Program Output

/opt/wandbox/lua-5.4.7/bin/lua: prog.lua:2: attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value (local 'x')
stack traceback:
prog.lua:2: in main chunk
[C]: in ?

.pyrofire | lua | lua-5.4.7 | wandbox.org

[fading marten]

;compile lua lua local x=tonumber("123") print(x+1)

[crisp tulip]

Program Output

124

.pyrofire | lua | lua-5.4.7 | wandbox.org

[sudden hamlet]

I sadly can‘t use studio for a while cause I am not at home but I‘ll try that in an online compiler

[fading marten]

;compile lua lua local x="123" print(x+1) -- error; cannot perform arithmetic on a string

[crisp tulip]

Program Output

124

.pyrofire | lua | lua-5.4.7 | wandbox.org

[fading marten]

uwot

[sudden hamlet]

or is there a mobile version for apple?

I just heard there WILL be a mobile version for studio but Idk if it exists yet

[fading marten]

i guess its a little inconsistent but you should still be strict about converting your strings to numbers when using them in math

[fading marten]

idk what you mean but here's an online luau compiler https://luau.org/demo

it is vanishingly unlikely there will ever be a mobile version of studio

[sudden hamlet]

awww I remember that lil guy. I made my first shop in there

adding and removing values. Life was so easy :c

[fading marten]

it was never easy. you were just ignorant to the things you now know which you didn't know before.

[sudden hamlet]

actually that sounds weird but makes much sense!

never thought like that

[fading marten]

all that means is you're improving and you now know more about how much there is to know, and how much you don't know

[sudden hamlet]

so the mlre problems I have, the more I improve because only new things make problems?

[sudden hamlet]

I am 3-4 rn

[fading marten]

something like, when you solve a problem once, you never need to solve it again and you will remember what to look for

[sudden hamlet]

playergui/startergui… xD

[fading marten]

meanwhile if you don't solve your own problems and have someone else do it, like chatgpt, people giving you free code etc, thats why you learn nothing from that

[fading marten]

yeah you now have a better understanding of that and will likely remember that

its a new tool in your toolbelt that you can use to solve other problems later

[sudden hamlet]

this is why instead of asking people to modify my script so it works, I talk like with you rn when I have a question

[fading marten]

getting good at any skill is the same ;p

no one starts out perfect

[sudden hamlet]

I‘ll just keep working on it. Ty for your help and motivation. Imma save that picture xD

I gotta „wake up“ in 6 hours and haven‘t even tried to sleep