Finding name of Child?

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#1

How do I find the name of the tool instead of the tool itself?

local inHand = hit.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA(‘Tool’)
local inBackpack = player.Backpack:FindFirstChildWhichIsA(‘Tool’)

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#2

You can get the name of any instance by getting it’s Name property, e.g. tool.Name

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#4

Actually, I believe you could do something like:

local tool = (hit.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool") or player.Backpack:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool")) 
print(tool.Name)
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#5

Otherwise, :FindFirstChild("ToolName") would do the trick.

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#6

But he’s trying to find the tool’s name.

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#7

Oh, thought he wanted to get the tool by name, never mind.

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#8

Thanks for all the great answers!

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#9

I think you can do something like this

hit.Parent.ChildAdded:Connect(function()
    for _, child in pairs(hit.Parent:GetChildren()) do
        if child:IsA("Tool") then
            print(child.Name) 
        end
    end
end

Basically it detect if a ChildAdded in the hit.Parent and check every children inside hit.Parent and if it’s a tool print it’s name, I don’t think this is the best solution but I think it helps with what you need

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