Code not even printing when attempting to get text of a TextButton

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#1

Hello! I am working on a game called “chess playground”. You can have a look at it here: chess playground - Roblox

Anyways, I was working on an upright button, so that when you place a piece you can choose if you want it to always be upright or it is able to fall. While I was doing the scripts, I tried it and it wasn’t working.

I then added a print() in the scripts to see if it was detecting it, but it somehow skipped a print???
I was really confused, and that is the reason I am creating this topic.

It uses a LocalScript, a RemoteEvent, and a Script. Here are the contents:
LocalScript (parented to a TextButton):

	local Colour = script.Parent.Parent.Toggle.Text
	local Piece = script.Parent.Parent.PieceBox.Text
	if game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild(Colour) then
		if game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild(Colour):FindFirstChild(Piece) then
			script["Wood Hits Wood 2 (SFX)"]:Play()
			game.ReplicatedStorage.PieceEvent:FireServer(game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild(Colour),game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild(Colour):FindFirstChild(Piece))
		end
	end
end)
game:GetService("UserInputService").InputBegan:Connect(function(inp,gpe)
	if gpe then return end
	if inp.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.E or inp.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.ButtonL2 then
		local Colour = script.Parent.Parent.Toggle.Text
		local Piece = script.Parent.Parent.PieceBox.Text
		if game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild(Colour) then
			if game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild(Colour):FindFirstChild(Piece) then
				script["Wood Hits Wood 2 (SFX)"]:Play()
				print(game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.UprightToggle.Text) -- not printing for some reason

				game.ReplicatedStorage.PieceEvent:FireServer(game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild(Colour),game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild(Colour):FindFirstChild(Piece), game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.UprightToggle.Text)
			end
		end
	end
end)

Script (in ServerScriptService);

game.ReplicatedStorage.PieceEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr,colour,piece:MeshPart, text:string)
	local char = plr.Character
	local pieceC = piece:Clone()
	pieceC.Parent = workspace.Pieces
	local root : Part = char.HumanoidRootPart
	pieceC.Position = root.Position + root.CFrame.LookVector * 4
	pieceC.Orientation = root.Orientation
	if text == "Upright Enabled" then
		print("upright") -- not printing
		local upright = game.ReplicatedStorage.UprightScript:Clone()
		upright.Parent = pieceC
		upright.Enabled = true
	end
end)

Here is the ancestry of important instances:
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Please let me know if you need more information.

#2

bump bump bump bump bump bump bump bump

#3

bumping again pls i need help idk what to do

#4

isn’t the local script parented to the text button? why do you need to go through PlayerGui?

#5

Hello, i’ve analysed your scripts, aswell as their corresponding ancestry and i still don’t know the problem,

can you please lmk the descendants of

Black & white

and the texts of

Toggle, PieceBox, UprightToggle aswell as the rest

#6

The only reason I could think of the print statements not working is if the if statements didn’t run I think you need to look into those if statements

#7

u’ve got a point

HBFJKF

#8

especially the

if text == “Upright Enabled” then

and

if game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild(Colour):FindFirstChild(Piece) then

I BEG YOU make some variables for them please

#9

Descendants of Black and White:
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Texts:
CleanupVote - Vote Cleanup x/y
PieceBox - Default “Pawn”, but cycles through Pawn,Knight,Bishop,Rook,Queen and King when clicked.
Spawn - “Spawn!”
Toggle - Default “White”, but alternates between White and Black when clicked.
UprightToggle - Default “Upright Disabled”, but alternates between “Upright Disabled” and “Upright Enbaled” when clicked.

I hope this helps.

#10

Oh yeah, and in the local script the two lines of code in the same if statement as the print(game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.UprightToggle.Text) run normally, so that just confuses me even more.

#11

Wait am I wrong or are the arguments for UserInputService wrong? Don’t they need to be flipped

#12

No, i checked and they’re the right way around.

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#14

bumping, need some help, cant update my game

#15

I just figured it out, and its the stupidest problem. It only executes when you use the E keybind because i didnt put the things in the activated listener and i kept testing by clicking the button.

At least its fixed now.

#16

:sob:

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