Click detection for non-button GUI elements

lucky_0211 · March 20, 2022, 6:56pm

I’m trying to make a placement system for my game. Where if you click on an item in the inventory-gui. It places the item that you selected.

This is the ui:

The problem is, these ‘items’ are parts that you can pick up. And in the inventory-gui i’m displaying the parts you picked up with a ViewportFrame, their doesn’t exist a “button version” of this GUI element so my question is: How would i detect if the player clicks on the viewportframe. I don’t think an invisible button would work because it would obstruct some functionality of the viewportframe.

Does somebody have an idea as to how to solve this? Thanks

iBuzzes · March 20, 2022, 7:06pm

You can use GuiObject.InputBegan. The event fires when the user starts interacting with the GuiObject.

local viewportFrame = script.Parent

viewportFrame.InputBegan:Connect(function(inputObject)
	if inputObject.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
		print("Mouse clicked")
	end
end)

lucky_0211 · March 20, 2022, 7:09pm

iBuzzes:

local viewportFrame = script.Parent

viewportFrame.InputBegan:Connect(function(inputObject)
	if inputObject.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
		print("Mouse clicked")
	end
end)

Thanks for the help i will try it