Help making a Plugin

programns · October 28, 2021, 1:23pm

Hey there! I’m trying to make a simple plugin for designing UI. This is my first time making a plugin, and I’ve run into a hurdle that I just can’t figure out.

I made this UI for my plugin.

However, when I open my plugin, it looks like this:

The TextButtons and TextLabels, just disappear.

This is my code:

local ToolBar = plugin:CreateToolbar("UI Design")
local UIButton = ToolBar:CreateButton("UI Design", "Spice up your UI", "rbxassetid://4458901886")
local UIWidgetInfo = DockWidgetPluginGuiInfo.new(
	Enum.InitialDockState.Left,
	false,
	false,
	200,
	300,
	150,
	150
)

local UIWidget = plugin:CreateDockWidgetPluginGui("UI Design", UIWidgetInfo)
UIWidget.Title = "UI Design"
script.Parent.Panel:Clone().Parent = UIWidget

UIButton.Click:Connect(function()
	UIWidget.Enabled = not UIWidget.Enabled
	
	UIWidget.Panel.Background.Frame1.TextButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
		print("Hello")
	end)
end)

As you can see, I added a print statement to detect when the button is clicked, and it does print “Hello”.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks!

matthew523 · October 28, 2021, 1:30pm

Are you using scale for position and size?

programns · October 28, 2021, 1:30pm

Yep, I’m using scale for position and size.

matthew523 · October 28, 2021, 1:31pm

Try using offset instead of scale.

programns · October 28, 2021, 1:32pm

Let me try using offset. Thanks for responding!

programns · October 28, 2021, 1:37pm

Should I be using offset for both position and scale?

matthew523 · October 28, 2021, 1:40pm

Stop what ur doing, I totally saw this over my head, but why are you cloning the frame instead of using the frame?

regexman · October 28, 2021, 1:41pm

Make the position offset, but make size to scale .
Worked for me with widgets

programns · October 28, 2021, 1:41pm

Yeah, I’m cloning it into the widget.

matthew523 · October 28, 2021, 1:42pm

Is panel the ScreenGUI or the frame?

programns · October 28, 2021, 1:44pm

It’s a frame.

regexman · October 28, 2021, 1:45pm

Don’t ignore me, make position offset and size scale

programns · October 28, 2021, 1:45pm

Let me try that out. Thanks for responding!

regexman · October 28, 2021, 1:46pm

If you make it screengui it will error (in my experience atleast)

programns · October 28, 2021, 1:47pm

That makes it all weird.

regexman · October 28, 2021, 1:48pm

maybe you didn’t read carefully, read again

programns · October 28, 2021, 1:48pm

That won’t work. I did that at the beginning, but unfortunately it didn’t work.

programns · October 28, 2021, 1:49pm

Yep I made the position offset, but the size scale, and it didn’t work.

matthew523 · October 28, 2021, 1:50pm

Did you try not cloning it and using panel as-is?

programns · October 28, 2021, 1:50pm

Haha, totally didn’t steal the UI I made for you Thanks for responding anyway lol.