Changing input types creates a new Prompt Gui

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#1

I’m setting up custom prompt gui’s and noticed that if I change input type, it ends up clearing the old one and creating a completely new one?

Expected behavior

The UI should just adapt to the most recent input type. There’s no need to delete and recreate the entire UI just for a single image change.

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#2

This seems to be an issue with how ProximityPromptService handles the PromptShown event. It triggers once again when, as you reported, changing input types.

local function onLoad()
	ProximityPromptService.PromptShown:Connect(function(prompt, inputType)
		print(inputType)
		if prompt.Style == Enum.ProximityPromptStyle.Default then
			return
		end
		local gui = getScreenGui()

		local cleanupFunction = createPrompt(prompt, inputType, gui)

		-- Wait for either the prompt being hidden or destroyed
		local yield = Instance.new("BindableEvent")
		local con = prompt.PromptHidden:Connect(function()
			yield:Fire()
		end)
		local con2 = prompt.Destroying:Connect(function()
			yield:Fire()
		end)
		yield.Event:Wait()
		con:Disconnect()
		con2:Disconnect()

		cleanupFunction()
	end)
end

onLoad()

Interestingly enough this also creates an unused-past-usage BindableEvent. Cumbersome!

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