Help! gui problem!?

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#1

so im trying to make a gui appear
here’s the script

local sg = game:GetService("StarterGui")
local part = game.Workspace.Part

part.Touched:Connect(function(click)
	if click  then
		sg.ScreenGui.TextButton = true
		
	end
end)

for some reason it’s not appearing?!

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#2

Firstly, do you have the GUI already in the StarterGui with its properties such as ScreenGui, Frame, etc?

#3

There is a lot wrong with this script. Beneath this is an improved version, I have added comments to explain what everything means.

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(touch) -- onTouch
	if touch.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then -- If we find a Humanoid (all players have a humanoid)
		local Player = game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayerFromCharacter(touch.Parent) -- Define the player
		
		local PlayerGUI = Player.PlayerGui -- Find GUIs in the PlayerGUI instead of StarterGUI
		local GUI = PlayerGUI:WaitForChild("ScreenGUI") -- ScreenGUI that you want
		
		GUI.TextButton.Visible = true -- Make it visible
	end
end)
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#4

ScreenGui gets cloned to the player when the game starts, so you have to get it from PlayerGui inside the player
You can remove this line:

local sg = game:GetService("StarterGui")

You are currently using part.Touched which check if something touches the part. If you want the player to be able to click it instead, you would need to insert a ClickDetector inside the part and chage the function to clickDetector.MouseClick. This give you the player who clicked it, example:

local part = game.Workspace.Part
local clickDetector = part .ClickDetector

clickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function(player)
	print(player.Name)
end)

If you want to check when the player touches the part (this gives the part that touched), example:

local part = game.Workspace.Part

part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
		local player = game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent) -- Define the player
		print(player.Name)
	end
end)

Now you want to make the TextButton visible, which can be done like this in either of the mentioned functions (I also recommend reading the comments in the code @Lostude wrote, and reading thoroughly through @JuanGamerPlayz_RBLX script to try and understand what is going on for use in future scripts):

local PlayerGUI = player.PlayerGui
local GUI = PlayerGUI:WaitForChild("ScreenGUI")

GUI.TextButton.Visible = true
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#5

Asking this as you might want to make an instance for the class… If you have already, then you can now basically create a script with the following:

local Part = game.Workspace.Part
local Touched_The_Part = false -- A little debounce to indicate once getting the part touched.

Part.Touched:Connect(function(player)
    Touched_The_Part = true

    local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer -- Variable in order to get the player property for the next steps below.
    local PlayerGui = Player.PlayerGui -- Property where the interfaces are located as the class StarterGui simply clones and it is not the primary parent.

    local The_Gui = PlayerGui.ScreenGui -- Variable to locate the GUI you created (this is a sample and you can rename it).
    local Button = The_Gui.TheButton

    if Touched_The_Part == true then
        Button.Visible = true -- This is going to make the button visible once touching the following part.
    end
end)

Everything being said above is the method of how you can do it by using the event .Touched! It is possible to also do this by ClickDetector.MouseClick and ProximityPrompt.Triggered while always creating a parameter to get the player.

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