Help in button script

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I’m trying to make a button(GuiSurface) that when clicked, knows the player that clicked.

I tried make this, but didn’t work

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function(plr))
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A SurfaceGui is a bit trickier than a regular Gui. I’ve always had trouble with them, so then I just parented them to the StarterGui and set the Adornee property to the part I want it to be on. Then I use remote events to replicate what one player does to/on the Gui to all players.

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It’s a good option, but the SurfaceGui needs to be parented to the Model I made to work fine.

4

How so? Please try saying what you are trying to do rather than ask how to do something that accomplishes what you want to do. It would save a lot of time and potentially expose errors or bad methods in your code.

5

so… The gui is inside a part(to work better) and has a button inside, and I want that when a player clicks the button, the script knows who clicked and(for example) prints the name of who clicked the button.

If I change the location of the gui, the script don’t work very well.

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I recommend checking out these resourced to learn more about GUI’s. Also, make sure your using a Server Script instead of a local script.
If you want it to print the player then try doing this:

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function(plr)
    print(plr)
end)
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It prints “nil” or (when I put plr.Name) say that the “plr” don’t has a Name propertie

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There is no parameters for the MouseButton1Click event, why is which it’s resulting as a nil value

Alternately, you could change the script in a LocalScript & use RemoteEvents to print out the Player from the server side that way

--LocalScript in StarterPlayerScripts
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local SurfaceGui = workspace.RandomPart.SurfaceGui
local Event = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")

SurfaceGui.TextButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
    Event:FireServer()
    print(Player.Name)
end)

--Server Script in ServerScriptService
local Event = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")

Event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player)
    print(Player.Name)
end)
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