How to disable clicking on a GUI button?

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#1

Yes, I know this probably sounds like a really stupid question, but I just can’t figure it out. I need to disable clicking on a button for a brief period of time, and everywhere I searched, I was told to disable the Active property, but it doesn’t change anything. I looked through all the other properties as well and none of them helped. Is there something I’m missing, or is there an extra step?

#2

game.startergui.screengui.textbutton.enabled = false

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#3

Enabled isn’t a property. I thought Active was its equivalent, but I guess not.

#4

oh sorry game.startergui.screengui.textbutton.active = false

#5

why would you exactly need to disable a button?
is this for a local script or something?

#6

With the button, I want you to click on it, and then it’ll be inactive until something finishes. Kind of like a cooldown, but I need to apply this to 3 different buttons at once so that they don’t interfere with the process that was triggered when the button was initially clicked.

#7

Like a debounce? Adding a debounce the .active

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#8

you can just do this

local Enabled = true
local TimedOutTime = 5
local Button = script.Parent.Button -- Instance of a button
	Button.MouseButton1Up:Connect(function()
		if Enabled == true then
		Enabled = false
		task.spawn(function()
			local Time = 0
			repeat
				task.wait(0.5)
				Time = Time + 0.5
			until TimedOutTime < Time or TimedOutTime == Time
			Enabled = true
		end)
		print("Clicked")
	else
		print("Unable to click")
	end
	end)
#9

I have a cooldown system in each separate script, but I was wondering if I could apply that cooldown concept to multiple buttons in different folders

#10

can you show me your explorer to see how you are trying to make this?

#11

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#12

let me try to make a function that has a cooldown on each button you call it to

#13

I have not tested this yet but you can try.
If you want a example of how to use it them tell me to

function DisableButton(Button,Function,Prints:boolean,TimedOutTime:number,FailedFunction)
	local Enabled = true
	Button.MouseButton1Up:Connect(function()
		if Enabled == true then
			Enabled = false
			task.spawn(function()
				local Time = 0
				repeat
					task.wait(0.5)
					Time = Time + 0.5
				until TimedOutTime < Time or TimedOutTime == Time
				Enabled = true
			end)
			if Prints == true then
				print("Clicked")
			end
			Function()
		else
			if Prints == true then
				print("Clicked on delay")
			end
			FailedFunction()
		end
		end)
end

Edit : i have tested it and it seems to work fine

#14

If I understood this correctly then you could just do something like

local ButtonOne = -- ButtonOne location
local ButtonTwo = -- ButtonTwo location
local ButtonThree = -- ButtonThree location
local LastTime = os.Time()
local DebounceTime = 5

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
    if os.Time() - LastTime >= DebounceTime then
-- Your code here
        ButtonOne.Active = false
        ButtonTwo.Active = false
        ButtonThree.Active = false
        LastTime = os.time()
    else
        print("Cant be clicked yet")
    end
end)

I didnt test this but should work, unless I made any spelling mistakes

#15

You could use one central ModuleScript to handling all that

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