Having problem with frame visibility

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#1

So I was making a sign that when you click on it, it’ll show the text written in better quality by using frame but when I write the script for it, it won’t work! it is like I can’t connect to starterGUI. what is the problem?

#2

Can you show the script please. Also when the game is running you have to change the players player.PlayerGui to update their Gui. When a client joins, everything from game.StarterGui gets replicated into the Players PlayerGui but this only happens once when they join.

#3

I should use a local script for it, right?

#4

so you are telling me to make it like this??

script.Parent.ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function()
    game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.TextGUI.Frame.Visible = true
end)
#5

That would work yes, but it would only work in a local script so yeah you can put it in a local script

#6

Thanks for the information you gave but unfortunately it doesn’t work

#7

The script doesn’t work because local scripts need to be a descendant of one of the following:

  • A Player’s Backpack , such as a child of a Tool
  • A Player’s character model
  • A Player’s PlayerGui
  • A Player’s PlayerScripts .
  • The ReplicatedFirst service

This was taken from the LocalScript | Roblox Creator Documentation page. Personally I recommend placing the local script in StarterPlayerScripts | Roblox Creator Documentation. For the click detector you would have to the path to it from workspace. So something like this:

local clickDetector = workspace.Part:FindFirstChildOfClass("ClickDetector") -- replace workspace.Part with the path to the part the player is clicking
local frame = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.TextGUI.Frame
clickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function()
	frame.Visible = true -- if you want to toggle you could do frame.Visible = not frame.Visible
end)
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