Ability to hide PlayerGui, also in favor of Capture Service, and feedback for ToggleGuiIsVisibleForCaptures and ScreenGui Containers

[HealthyKarl]

_{I tried to search for “hide playergui”, to see if it was suggested before}

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to

Easily, immitate the same thing that the built-in Capture Button does, without interfering with other Enabled states.

_{Image of the In-Experience Capture Button}

If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because

It would be easier and faster to hide and disable the rendering of the entire PlayerGui. And for ScreenGui Containers even more.

 

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Reasons why Roblox doesn’t have to worry about hiding the PlayerGui

• The player has already full control of what can be put inside the PlayerGui and what not.
• The PlayerGui is not the CoreGui
• The In-Experience GUI is not being mounted on the PlayerGui, but instead into the CoreGui

This probably explains why ScreenshotHud, doesn’t hide the entire CoreGui. Because a developer is able to enable the ScreenshotHud and additionally move the buttons around.

This gives the impression that, Roblox doesn’t want any developer to control the In-Experience controls, to probably prevent any developer from soft-locking a user from going out of a game, to go back to the Universal App.
Which is understandable.

But that’s for the CoreGui and not the PlayerGui.
 

The linked thread, mentions CaptureService.CaptureBegan and CaptureService.CaptureEnded, however they don’t seem to trigger when using :CaptureScreenshot, and are only specific to the In-Experience Capture Button.

Then there’s the mention of ScreenshotHud.HideCoreGuiForCaptures and ScreenshotHud.HidePlayerGuiForCaptures. Ironically, this only controls the behavior for the ScreenshotHud’s own Capture button and the In-Experience Capture Button.
It doesn’t actually do anything for :CaptureScreenshot.

 

ToggleGuiIsVisibleForCaptures

Before a Capture is taken through the Roblox In-Experience Capture Button. GuiService:ToggleGuiIsVisibleForCaptures actually gets called.

This can hide a GuiType by running

game.GuiService:ToggleGuiIsVisibleForCaptures(Enum.GuiType.Custom)

Where Enum.GuiType.Custom is referring to the PlayerGui. This will toggle between rendering a specific Gui.

Here’s a summary of what I am thinking:

Image

I took it out of the collapse/expand

There’s also FFlagDebugAdornsDisabled.

(more written below)

 

ScreenshotHud

You can run this, which will bring a ScreenshotHud.

game.GuiService.ScreenshotHud.HideCoreGuiForCaptures = true
game.GuiService.ScreenshotHud.HidePlayerGuiForCaptures = true
game.GuiService.ScreenshotHud.Visible = true

If you click on the green Button, it will hide the PlayerGui and some features of the CoreGui. It won’t actually hide the rest of the CoreGui, the Roblox Icon at the top left will still be visible, which is understandable.

 

Side Suggestion - ScreenGUI Containers, the better solution

If ScreenGUI Containers would be a thing, you could just toggle the Container off and all underlying ScreenGui would stop rendering, without interferring with other Enabled states. Unfortunately, that’s not a thing.

_{This image showcases why ScreenGUI Containers would be beneficial. Separate ScreenGui prevent “x-ray clicking”.}

And then, you could have like an “Interface” and make PlayerGui inherit from it, and now, you can hide PlayerGui and have new ScreenGui Containers!

[thedauser (dauser)]

Absolute vouch

[AlteFore (IllIlIIllIIIlllI)]

I really like this idea. It would be super good for the platform, and I hope ROBLOX does this.

+1

[TeslaGamerd (Tesla)]

Thats some really smart stuff over here, although i hope roblox does something so this can be done easier