About to lose my mind

[turbid sparrow]

Trying to get player from textbutton on surface UI ran server side.
Clicking the button works, no matter how I try and pull local player, it either returns some arbitrary number or nil. I've gone as far as trying to use Players as a service, returning the same depending on how I address it.

local clickDetector = script.Parent
print(players.LocalPlayer)
local function ButtonPressed(player)
    print(player)
end
clickDetector.MouseButton1Down:Connect(ButtonPressed)```

https://tenor.com/view/elzielai-flail-gif-18008563

I've also tried publishing the game

[terse bane]

Server for mouse button press?

I'd assume you wanna find the player so you'd probs have to go up parent by parent until the ancestor is a player

[turbid sparrow]

Trying to work in steps, had a script working with a proximity prompt, and wanted to get it working with a surfaceUI and expected the same behavior, and about the same way to get the player

All this before I figure out how to display different text per player

Still learning client side stuff

[wheat crest]

don't you have to get the player on the client

@turbid sparrow

[turbid sparrow]

Shouldn't there be a way on server side to detect who clicked on something?

[narrow whale]

you should actually just adornee the surface gui to the part and move the surface gui into the starter gui and there you can work with local scripts better, you shouldnt use server sided scripts for gui

[turbid sparrow]

I think this is the end goal, but I haven't worked with client side surface gui to know how they work

[wispy inlet]

If you need to print local player's name then change RunContext (property of the script) to Client.

Also its better to print player's name but not the instance.

[turbid sparrow]

I'll have to look into that, again still new to client side stuff, so I'll have to see what the characteristics of that property changes. Already looking at starting from scratch to rework some things

I really appreciate the advice!

[terse bane]

Thats for click detectors

[turbid sparrow]

Guess I'm dating myself when I talk about old methods :C