How to use :GetChildren() in this situation, please help

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#1

  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    How would I get children inside “Spellbook”, then get each “CD”, and find the “inputkey” frame, and get its text for every single “CD” in there, my point of doing that is so i can use .Changed to detect when its changed so i can fire a remote and do what i want on the server

  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    Don’t know how to exactly do this, i looked through devforum but didn’t find much.

#2

I’m not quite sure with what you mean with the ‘InputKey’ Frame, but I can show you an example of how the :GetChildren() function would be set up.
Excuse the code, I am on phone.

local spellBook = <path to spellbook>
local function SpellBookInstances()
   local instances = spellBook:GetChildren() --variable that now contains every child of spellbook
   for i, v in instances do --repeat for every child in instances
      print(v.KeyFrame)
      print(v.CD)
   end
end

SpellBookInstances() --run the command

Guessing that the instances in the Spellbook have a KeyFrame and CD property, it will print in the output console per each spell inside of the spellbook.

#3

sorry, i didnt show you a screenshot of the explorer, it looks like this:
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#4 
local CD_Table = {}
local Spells = ... -- enter here the poisition of spells scrollingframe

local function find_CD_on_table(item)
   for _, a in pairs(CD_Table) do
      if a.Item == item then
         return a
      end
   end
   return nil
end

for _, a in pairs(Spells:GetChildren()) do
   if a.Name == "CD" then

      table.insert(CD_table, {
         Item = a,
         Text = a.inputKey.container.Text,
      })

      a.inputKey.container.Changed:Connect(function()
         -- you can put here the remote you we're talking about
         -- you can also remove the table stuff but i just added them in case you need 
         local get = find_CD_on_table(a)
         if not get then return end
         get.Text = a.inputKey.container.Textthem
      end)

   end
end
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#5

It changes when focusing on hitbox, it changed when typing the letter AND when pressing Enter, how would i just fire the event when a player presses Enter?

#6 
local CD_Table = {}
local Spells = ... -- enter here the poisition of spells scrollingframe

local function find_CD_on_table(item)
	for _, a in pairs(CD_Table) do
		if a.Item == item then
			return a
		end
	end
	return nil
end

for _, a in pairs(Spells:GetChildren()) do
	if a.Name == "CD" then

		table.insert(CD_Table, {
			Item = a,
			Text = a.inputKey.container.Text,
		})
		
		a.inputKey.container.ReturnPressedFromOnScreenKeyboard:Connect(function()
			local get = find_CD_on_table(a)
			if not get then return end
			get.Text = a.inputKey.container.Textthem
		end)

	end
end
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#7

why place this in a table, cant u just do get children and thats it? i dont see a point in making cd_Table. can you maybe explain it please?

#8

If you ever need it, I added it. Just how I like coding my stuff.

#9

i didnt quite understand what you mean here, can you explain why would using tables like you did be better?

#10

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