AlarmScript Ui not working

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#1

I was working on an alarm system that occurs when a part with a text button is clicked. I have got pretty far but I am stuck on the part where I want the ui to change it’s size every second until the reinforcements come. My code does not work, and I think it has something to do with accessing the startergui from workspace. There are no errors. Here are some pictures:

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What is wrong?

#2

Because you are using StarterGui, instead if PlayerGui

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#3

so how would I be able to put it in player gui?
players service?
(Sorry I’m not good with ui)

#4

Basically when you put something inside of StarterGui it’s actually replicated to all the players’ PlayerGuis, so the path to them would have to be plr.PlayerGui

#5

so,

warn("ALARM STARTED")
plr.PlayerGui.AlarmUi.Outline.Time.Size = UDim2.new(0, 50, 0, 37)
---rest of the code is the same except I replace game.Startergui with plr---
#6

Inside of the () next to the function put plr.

#7

You need to get the player from the click detector use it to then get the Player GUI

do something like this

local AlarmOn   -- used as debounce

function UIAlarmChanges(player)
	local PlayerGUI = player:FindFirstChild('PlayerGui')  -- fine that players ui that clicked the object
	if not PlayerGUI then return end -- no ui so just exit function 
	PlayerGUI.AlarmUI.OutLine.Time.Size = UDim2.new(0,50,0,37)
	wait(1)	
	---- add the rest in here
end



script.Parent.AlarmPiece.StartAlert.ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function(player)
	if AlarmOn then return end  -- the alarm is already on so exit function
	AlarmOn = true
	UIAlarmChanges(player)
	AlarmOn = false
end)
#8

It works, Thank You! :slight_smile:

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