I have this script below (it works obviously): This detects TextButton’s under a frame. Now, say I wanted to find the TextButton even ‘deeper’ for the lack of a better term in the frame like this:
Instead of this:
How should I change the (script.Parent:GetChildren()) to find the TextButton under another frame?
for _,Button in ipairs(script.Parent:GetChildren()) do
if Button:IsA("TextButton") then
Button.Activated:Connect(function()
game.ReplicatedStorage.ChangeTeamEvent:FireServer(Button.Name)
end)
end
end
Like the other people are saying, you can use Instance:GetDescendants. However, there is another option. You could also use recursion.
local function Recursion(instance)
for _,child in pairs(instance:GetChildren()) do
if child:IsA("TextButton") then
-- do stuff
else
Recursion(child)
end
end
end
In all honestly you should still use :GetDescendants, unless you only want to iterate to a certain depth. In that case you could do something like this:
local function Recursion(instance, depth)
for _,child in pairs(instance:GetChildren()) do
if child:IsA("TextButton") then
-- do stuff
elseif math.abs(depth) > 0 then
Recursion(child, depth-1)
end
end
end
This will only iterate a certain amount of descendants.
local frame = script.parent
local rs = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local changeTeam = rs:WaitForChild("ChangeTeamEvent")
for _, Button in ipairs(frame:GetDescendants()) do
if Button:IsA("TextButton") then
Button.Activated:Connect(function()
changeTeam:FireServer(Button.Name)
end)
end
end
I’d declare a variable reference to the RemoteEvent instance at the top of the script like this.
I think you are confusing :GetChildren with :FindFirstChild. As far as I know, :GetChildren doesn’t have a recursive parameter while Instance | Roblox Creator Documentation does. Plus, if it did, wouldn’t that make :GetDescendants useless API bloat?
Also, the point of my post was to show an example of how recursion might be done and how it could be modified to give greater control.
