When typing into a Text Box, how do I make it auto-complete a player’s username that is in the server?
Any kind of information is appreciated!!
When typing into a Text Box, how do I make it auto-complete a player’s username that is in the server?
Any kind of information is appreciated!!
The title shouldn’t say it all. Simplify it to something like “Player Name Auto-Complete” and provide more details in the body of your thread.
I’d suggest utilizing string.match
which can be used to help identify a player’s name based on a partial string, ex.
TextBox Input:
twentych
Automatch:
TwentyCharacterUsername
However you should be warned that this will only return the first result it finds if any, so if there are multiple user names that contain twentych
, it will only return the first it finds.
Here’s the article link; (Just scroll till you find string.match)
I disagree, I think OP should use string.sub. String.sub takes two numbers as arguments, which are the position of the character in a string you want to start with and end with. Tricky to explain so here are some examples:
print(string.sub("Nicolas_Caged", 1, 4))
>Nico
print(string.sub("Nicolas_Caged", 4, 6))
>ol
You should test a username to see if its compatible by doing this
local userInput = "Nicolas_Ca"
local userName = "Nicolas_Caged"
if string.sub(userName, 1, #userInput) == userInput then
return true
end
For clarities sake, the #operator returns the length of the string
An added benefit of using a string.sub check is that you can loop through all names and determine if there are more than 1 results still. As long as more than 1 results are returned it shouldn’t autocomplete (or should display a list of all matching options to pick between).