BillboardGui TextButton touch pressed event?

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#1

This seems like it should be easy, but I can’t figure it out. Does anyone know the event to fire for touching (on a touch device, eg iPad) a textbutton which is inside a BillboardGui. On a normal gui ‘MouseButton1Down’ or ‘MouseButton1Click’ would work; but for some reason on a billboardGui it won’t with touch devices.

Thanks.

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#2

Object.InputBegan:Connect(function(Input,GP)

The UserInputService of GUIs :slight_smile:

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#3

Its still not reacting to the touch.

#4

DId you check for the UserInputType to be Enum.UserInputType.Touch?

Or is it like not printing (even without any ifs) at all when you tap it?

#5

its not printing at all.

#6

Does UserInputService.InputBegan work?

If so, try doing it manually. Check if the touch position is inside the Absolute properties of the object, and if the object is visible.

#7

Normal userinputservice is working fine. There should be an easier way to do this though…

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#8

Turn the “Active” property off for the BillboardGui’s descendants and that should fix it.

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#9

Try any of the following (I might be talking out my hind and you may have already done this):

  • Parent BillboardGui to PlayerGui
  • Button.TouchTap
  • Button.InputBegan
  • Set Active property for descendants
  • Slam your keyboard until something happens (not recommended, but it works for me)

If none of that works, I’m going on a science field trip.

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#10

Turn on the Active property on your BillboardGui. After that, MouseButton1 events on GuiButtons in that BillboardGui will work.

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#11

Tried that; its still not working. Is it possible the feature is broken?
Are you able to replicate it working?

I’ve started a new place, inserted a billboardgui with a button inside and made a localscript that prints once said button is pressed. Nothing is printing.

#12

BillboardGuiButtonWorking.rbxl (14.7 KB)

  • BillboardGui has to be Active=true
  • The button needs to be within the size of the BillboardGui. Areas of the button outside of the BillboardGui’s actual allocated size will not trigger events.
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#13

Right, I see what I did wrong now. Thanks!

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#14

Apparently Billboard GUIs have to be placed inside of PlayerGui for mouse events to work, unlike Surface GUIs which don’t matter.

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#15

Yeah, found that out a while back - quite odd that at the time I couldn’t find any mention of it! Thanks anyway :slight_smile:

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#16

Basically to make a clickable BillboardGui, do the following:

  • Make a Part / Attachment
  • Make a BillboardGui, but parent it inside of StarterGui instead of the Part / Attachment
  • Make the Adornee of the BillboardGui to that Part / Attachment you’ve made
  • Inside the BillboardGui make a button in order to make it clickable I guess.
  • Make a script that uses a MouseClick event and have it do something(like print for testing)

E I updated this comment because I wanted to make it better looking lol

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#17

such an old post but setting the billboardgui parent to player gui worked for me