Assistance with book/sticky note system

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#1

so, I’m trying to make this system that displays a book GUI with working pages or a Sticky note GUI
that displays text based on StringValues stored into the object the player clicks. The values are passed to the Client trough a RemoteEvent.

There is no issue with the sticky note part of the code, but when it comes to the book, it’s another story, the book only works once, for moving up from pages: 1 and 2 to: 3 and 4 then breaks, also the PageDown function doesn’t work either for some reason, I’ve tried many things before posting the code here and remain Puzzled.

local evn = game.ReplicatedStorage.InteractionEvent
local CurrenLeft = 1
local CurrenRight = 2
local PgRun = false
local Page = {}

local function LoadText(CurrLef, CurrRight, Count)
	script.Parent.BookUi.Bckg.PageLeft.Text = Page[CurrLef].Value
	script.Parent.BookUi.Bckg.PageRight.Text = Page[CurrRight].Value
	print(CurrLef)
	print(CurrRight)
	print(Count)
	if CurrLef == 1 then
		script.Parent.BookUi.PgDwn.Visible = false
		script.Parent.BookUi.PgUp.Visible = true
	elseif CurrRight == Count then
		script.Parent.BookUi.PgUp.Visible = false
		script.Parent.BookUi.PgDwn.Visible = true
	else 
		script.Parent.BookUi.PgUp.Visible = true
		script.Parent.BookUi.PgDwn.Visible = true
	end
end		

local function PageUp(CurentLeft, CurentRight, PageCount)
	if script.Parent.BookUi.Visible == true and CurentRight ~= PageCount and PgRun == true then
		print("UpRan")
		script["Book Page Turn"]:Play()
		CurentLeft, CurentRight = (CurentRight + 1), (CurentLeft + 3)
		LoadText(CurentLeft, CurentRight, PageCount)
	end
end

local function PageDown(CurentLeft, CurentRight, PageCount)
	if script.Parent.BookUi.Visible == true and CurentLeft ~= 1 and PgRun == true then
		print("DwnRan")
		script["Book Page Turn"]:Play()
		CurentLeft, CurentRight = CurentLeft - 1, CurentRight - 3
		LoadText(CurentLeft, CurentRight, PageCount)
	end
end

local function Exit(CurrenLeft, CurrenRight)
	--script.Parent.Enabled = false
	script.Parent.BookUi.Visible = false	
	CurrenLeft = 1
	CurrenRight = 2
end




evn.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(ReadType, Pages, NoteText)
	print("Event Recieved")
	if ReadType.Value == 1 then
		print("ReadType is 1(book)")
local PageCount = #Pages


		Page = Pages
		print("Table set")
	
--script.Parent.Enabled = true
	--	wait()
		script.Parent.BookUi.Visible = true
		script.Parent.NoteUi.Visible = false
LoadText(CurrenLeft, CurrenRight, PageCount)
print("rendering text")
	
	

script.Parent.BookUi.PgUp.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function() PgRun = true PageUp(CurrenLeft, CurrenRight, PageCount) wait() PgRun = false end)
script.Parent.BookUi.PgDwn.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function() PgRun = true PageDown(CurrenLeft, CurrenRight, PageCount) wait() PgRun = false end)
script.Parent.BookUi.Bckg.ExitButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() Exit(CurrenLeft, CurrenRight) end)
	elseif ReadType.Value == 2 then
		print("ReadType is 2(sticky note)")
		script.Parent.NoteUi.Visible = true
		script.Parent.BookUi.Visible = false
		
		script.Parent.NoteUi.ImageLabel.NoteText.Text = NoteText.Value
		
		
		script.Parent.NoteUi.ImageLabel.ExitButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
			script.Parent.NoteUi.Visible = false
		end)
	end	
end)

(Note that the code is extremely messy as I wasn’t going for OOP and am far from a professional)

I’ll be awaiting any help at all, thank you in advance.

#2

Why not simply create an add or subtract variable to check their current page. Then use if then statements to continue code:

local Page = 0

local function ConnectPage()
if Page <= 0 then
Page = 0

 elseif Page == 1 then

 elseif Page == 2 then

 end

end

local function OnForwardPress()
Page += 1
ConnectPage()
end
Forward.MouseButton1Click:Connect(OnForwardPress)

local function OnBackwardPress()
Page -= 1
ConnectPage()
end
Backward.MouseButton1Click:Connect(OnBackwardPress)

#3

because the amount of page isn’t set as I stated before, the page count can go up to whatever max number roblox lua handles as long as it’s a pair number, if I try to do that using if statements, let’s just say it wouldn’t be the greatest idea, sorry if i actually got your solution wrong, it’s pretty late here.

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