While developing a system for entering a four-digit code to open a door, I encountered an issue: when trying to retrieve the value from TextBox.Text , the string "TextBox" is returned instead of the user’s input. This causes the comparison with the correct code to always fail, resulting in the message: “Incorrect code. Try again.”
You can’t get the Text from the player because it’s a Gui and Guis only exist locally, you have to use a RemoteEvent inside a LocalScript to retrieve the text
This is happening because of how the client and the server process information, you are creating the text box on the client and then when the player enters the text on the client side the text has been edited locally, but on the server the text box was never edited.
You could edit your server script to fire a remote event to create the gui locally.
and then fire the remote event again once you have confirmed the code is correct
Server script:
local TweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")
local door = script.Parent
local proximityPrompt = door:FindFirstChild("ProximityPrompt")
local window = door:FindFirstChild("Window2")
local number = door:FindFirstChild("Number2")
local correctCode = "0000"
-- ///
local remoteEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent
-- ///
local isOpen = false
local originalDoorPosition = door.Position
local offset = Vector3.new(0, 15, 0)
local function openDoorAndParts()
if not isOpen then
isOpen = true
door.Position = door.Position + offset
task.wait(5)
door.Position = originalDoorPosition
isOpen = false
end
end
proximityPrompt.Triggered:Connect(function(player)
remoteEvent:FireClient(player)
end)
remoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(openDoorAndParts)
Local script:
local remoteEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local correctCode = "0000"
local isOpen = false
function checkCode(player, enteredCode)
enteredCode = enteredCode:match("^%s*(.-)%s*$")
print("Entered Code (trimmed):", enteredCode)
print("Correct Code:", correctCode)
if enteredCode == correctCode then
print("Correct code entered! Opening the door.")
remoteEvent:FireServer()
else
warn("Incorrect code. Try again.")
end
end
remoteEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
local screenGui = Instance.new("ScreenGui")
screenGui.Parent = player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
local textBox = Instance.new("TextBox")
textBox.Size = UDim2.new(0, 200, 0, 50)
textBox.Position = UDim2.new(0.5, -100, 0.5, -25)
textBox.PlaceholderText = "Enter the code"
textBox.Parent = screenGui
local submitButton = Instance.new("TextButton")
submitButton.Size = UDim2.new(0, 200, 0, 50)
submitButton.Position = UDim2.new(0.5, -100, 0.6, -25)
submitButton.Text = "Submit"
submitButton.Parent = screenGui
submitButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
local enteredText = textBox.Text
print("Submit button clicked!")
print("TextBox value (user input):", enteredText)
checkCode(player, enteredText)
screenGui:Destroy()
end)
end)
