Getting player who clicked a TextButton

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#1

Hello!
I need help (again…) with a script.
So It’s been a while I’ve been trying to figure this out and so far google, youtube and devforum didn’t help me.
I need to get, with a server script, the player who clicked a button.
Please note the following:

  • I can’t use a local script.
  • The buttons aren’t on a fixed number and name. They are created by another server script and are different between each player.
  • The button is inside a Surface Gui.
  • .Activated doesn’t work.
  • The SurfaceGui (when the button may be clicked) is inside a tool in a character in the workspace.

I need it so it can prompt a purchase to the player. LocalScripts do NOT work (I already tried).
I hope I explained myself enough. Please let me know if you need more information.

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#2

You simply can not, you have to use a LocalScript. What’s not working with prompting the purchase on the client?

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#3

LocalScripts work, you are likely doing something wrong with your script placement.

#4

It’s wrong that LocalScript doesn’t work in Workspace

#5

It’s children of the textbutton (the localscript). I assure you it is not working. It loads while in backpack but doesn’t get the button click.

#6

You could move the LocalScript outside of workspace, or change the RunContext to Client, though it’s weird to have scripts inside workspace.

#7

You mean: “Its a child of the Textbutton”

That isnt true, LocalScripts do not work in the workspace, you need to modify a Server Script to run in that environment.

#8

I can’t move the localscript outside of workspace. I need it to be inside the button which needs to be inside the workspace afterall

#9

Sorry. I meant that localscript do not work in workspace. How do exactly change the running environment of a server script?

#10

Do what @RickAstll3y said in his previous post:

Use a Regular Script, Change the Scripts RunContext peroperty to Client, which will make the Script run as a LocalScript, unlike a regular LocalScript, it will run in the workspace.

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