Hotbar Buttons

[summer sage]

My hotbar buttons are only working in studio testing, and not in the actual game published.

local function onButtonClick()
    print("Button clicked!")

end

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(onButtonClick)```

Code inside the LocalScript

[mild pulsar]

Your text button is your script.Parent

Your waiting for child in your Textbutton for a Textbutton

[summer sage]

so im not dumb im stupid?

[mild pulsar]

Try remove it down to just script.parent and add a task.wait(2) for now above it

If that works bravo

[summer sage]

wait so where should i put the loca lscript

[mild pulsar]

Startercharacterscripts

[summer sage]

kk

local function onButtonClick()
    print("Button clicked!")

end

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(onButtonClick)```

@mild pulsar

[mild pulsar]

Now run it, check for errors in the output
If that fails add a print(button) after the button variable assignment

Also put the task wait before, you want to make sure it loads in before you try reference it

[summer sage]

local function onButtonClick()
    print("Button clicked!")

end

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(onButtonClick)```

[mild pulsar]

Yes

[mild pulsar]

Interesting model name

Errors and good

So button is referencing to a model rn

[mild pulsar]

Gng you sure this is where your script is?
This isn't a different script

I ain't seeing a Sydney sweeney

[summer sage]

😭

[summer sage]

i am THE sydney sweeney

[mild pulsar]

Oh I think it's getting replicated to your character during runtime

Alright scrap that

Reference the button from workspace

You got a million things to go through sadly

Game.workspace etc

[summer sage]

kill me

[mild pulsar]

Yes it's alot of referencing lol but it should auto highlight

[summer sage]

should i like search smth up?

in the workspasce

[mild pulsar]

You need to reference from

game.Workspace

All the way down to your button

Oh wait I'm dumb not workspace

Startergui

[summer sage]

i was like, workspace?!?

😭

dude had me rethinking life

[upbeat cliff]

** You are now Level 6! **

[mild pulsar]

You could always put the local script in the button

Then do script.parent

Save yourself some time

Just remember where your script is

Or name it so you can search it later

[summer sage]

as in this?

local function onButtonClick()
    print("Button clicked!")

end

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(onButtonClick)```

into that button?

[mild pulsar]

Yep the button should be put into playergui in runtime and your localscript in it
So it should be able to reference it like that

[summer sage]

okay

[summer sage]

So should I have that same code in both the text button, and under startercharacterscripts?

[mild pulsar]

I was wrong about startercharacter you don't need a script in there for this

Only in the button

[summer sage]

oh

oky

[mild pulsar]

local button = script.Parent
print(button.Name,"this")

local function onButtonClick()
    print("Button clicked!")

end

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(onButtonClick)```

Do that

Should print TextButton this

[summer sage]

@mild pulsar it printed it

should it work now?

[mild pulsar]

It should have you clicked the button

If it's not working 3 possible issues

• it's not in startergui
• it's not a local script
• another script is interfering

It is a localscript

[summer sage]

letsj s make sure

like that?

[mild pulsar]

You have so many frames

I cant tell where eit actually is

[summer sage]

yerp

[mild pulsar]

Buts it's a localscript

Have you tried the button?

[summer sage]

ill do that now

[summer sage]

still doesnt work

[mild pulsar]

Then I have no idea either I'm forgetting something or one of your scripts is getting in the way

[summer sage]

should i run it in studio n see

[mild pulsar]

Probably using waitforchild In something that doesnt exist but idk

Have you not run it in studio and clicked the button?

[summer sage]

no i tried it in game 😭

it works in studio

js tried it

still none of those hotbar buttons work in game

[mild pulsar]

The only possible thought is it's not in startergui

If it is then Im not sure, I've made a couple games and I haven't had this issue

[mild pulsar]

Almost there

Just a bit further up

[mild pulsar]

I actually have a last idea

[summer sage]

alr

[mild pulsar]

while not script.Parent do
task.wait()
end
local parent = script.Parent

Add that so we wait for the button gui

[summer sage]

so where should i put it

the same localscript we have the other one in

?

[mild pulsar]

Yes

At the top

[summer sage]

kk

[mild pulsar]

No

Remove parent = script.Parent

Then your good

And you can remove the task.wait

[summer sage]

the one with the (2)?

    task.wait()
end
local 

task.wait(2) 
local button = script.Parent
print(button.Name,"this")

local function onButtonClick()
    print("Button clicked!")

end

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(onButtonClick)```

[mild pulsar]

Yes

[summer sage]

kk

[mild pulsar]

while not script.Parent do
    task.wait()
end

local button = script.Parent
print(button.Name,"this")

local function onButtonClick()
    print("Button clicked!")

end

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(onButtonClick)```

[summer sage]

alr ill try it

works in studio

still doesnt work in game

[summer sage]

yeah this gotta be like unfixable

[mild pulsar]

Let's hope pyro got you

[summer sage]

yeah

[summer sage]

so theres nothing wrong over ehre

[mild pulsar]

Not really startergui is replicated to each client during run time

So in theory you should be able to reference the button with script.Parent so idk what the issue us

[summer sage]

oh, do u have any friends that might know?

[mild pulsar]

Not at 4am I don't lol

[summer sage]

oh its 4am for u dang

alr ima head to bed tho its 11 for me

thanks for your help

[summer sage]

@worthy pendant ^

[worthy pendant]

ill look through it then

[summer sage]

kk

[worthy pendant]

can you send a screenshot of the console in game after the button press?

[summer sage]

yeah lemme do it rq

[upbeat cliff]

** You are now Level 7! **

[summer sage]

wait in studio or the actual game

[worthy pendant]

actual game

[summer sage]

kk

[summer sage]

but it still didnt work

[worthy pendant]

then where are the button clicked prints coming from

[worthy pendant]

yeah, thats the script working no?

[summer sage]

yeah but like the button wont actually work

[worthy pendant]

the only thing this script does is print

is there a different script you're talking about

[summer sage]

no

[worthy pendant]

then yeah, the button isnt doing anything else because its not scripted to do anything else

all it does is print the name of the button and print everytime its clicked, which is what its doing

[summer sage]

so waht script should i use

[worthy pendant]

script it so that it has the functionality you want from it, what is it supposed to do?

[summer sage]

It supposed to open a menu that has all the cases you can open on it

[worthy pendant]

then reference the menu in your script, and when the button is pressed make it visible. We cant really write scripts for you here but try it yourself and come back when you are stuck

[summer sage]

ill try this

    script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Cases.Visible = true
end)```

[summer sage]

@worthy pendant this doesn't work

i also tried

    script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Visible=true
end)

[worthy pendant]

@summer sage are you referencing the right thing, and add a print statement inside the activated function to make sure the button itself is still working

[summer sage]

I believe i am ?

    print("cases opened!")
    script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Visible=true
end)```

[worthy pendant]

send screen shot of the explorer with the script and the cases frame

[summer sage]

(HotBarLocalScript)

is the script

[worthy pendant]

the cases is only the parent of the button, so you only need

script.Parent.Parent.Visible = true

[summer sage]

alr ill try it and lyk

[summer sage]

still doesnt work

[worthy pendant]

what does cases normally look like?

[worthy pendant]

do the same thing you did here, but change the print statement to

print(script.Parent.Parent.Name, script.Parent.Parent.Visble)

and tell me what happens

and

put it after you change the visibility

its rly there to make sure the name is right, the visibility print is kinda redundant

[summer sage]

    script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Visible=true
    print(script.Parent.Parent.Name, script.Parent.Parent.Visble)
end)```

this?

[worthy pendant]

yes

wait no

[summer sage]

oh

[worthy pendant]

remove the extra parent in line 2

then yes

[summer sage]

script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function()
script.Parent.Parent.Visible=true
print(script.Parent.Parent.Name, script.Parent.Parent.Visble)
end)

alr

this thing feels unfixable

guess we'll see rn

[worthy pendant]

we just doing some debugging right there, there is almost always a way to do smth

[summer sage]

yeah still doesnt work

[worthy pendant]

what is it printing

[worthy pendant]

visible is mispelled

you are missing in "I" between s and b

[summer sage]

yeah i see

[worthy pendant]

on the print

[summer sage]

smallest errors ever 🤣

[worthy pendant]

also you dont need to keep testing in game, you can stay on studio for now

[summer sage]

oh okay

[worthy pendant]

these errors should also be popping up there

[summer sage]

well it printed

[worthy pendant]

so the cases is visible somewhere, but just not on screen for some reason

[summer sage]

i suppose

[worthy pendant]

is the cases frame always in the same spot, meaning you arent moving it at all?
Is the Active property of cases enabled?
or is there anything else messing with it, like at all?

[summer sage]

its sure active

[worthy pendant]

so what are you doing to cases to make it invisible at the start of the game

[summer sage]

no clue

cause it works in studio

[worthy pendant]

studio can do some weird things with what ui is visible and isnt

[summer sage]

all the buttons to the left and right of the middle X dont work in game but all work in studio

[worthy pendant]

all of those buttons are scripted?

[summer sage]

nope

so no idea whats happening

[worthy pendant]

so like, there is no script, anywhere for those buttons, but when you press them, they open the correct ui, and it works as intended

[summer sage]

yep

all those guis

"custom'" "game select"

etc

all work

with no script

[worthy pendant]

bro has ghosts in his studio

[summer sage]

😭

[worthy pendant]

do you have any ui plugins or anything

[summer sage]

i can hop on screenshare if u want rq

[worthy pendant]

ye sure

[summer sage]

alr

which

[worthy pendant]

general 2 or dms