Hiding and Showing GUI issue

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#1

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    I’m making a dialogue system in roblox studio, and want to make it so while the dialogue gui is enabled, all other guis are disabled.

  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    When the UI is enabled, the others disappear as scripted, but when I disable it they don’t come back.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
    I’ve tried searching on the devforum + documentation.

Current Script:

local IsVisible = false

while wait() do
	if script.Parent.Dialogue.Enabled then
		IsVisible = true
		for _, GUI in script.Parent:GetChildren() do
			if GUI.Name ~= "Dialogue" then
				GUI.Enabled = false
			end
		end
	end
end

if IsVisible and script.Parent.Dialogue.Enabled then
	IsVisible = false
	for _, GUI in script.Parent:GetChildren() do
		if GUI.Name ~= "Dialogue" then
			GUI.Enabled = true
		end
	end
end
#2

Hi, personally I would do something like this:

-- DialogueHandler LocalScript

local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer

local DisabledUIs = {}

wait(5)

Player.PlayerGui.Dialogue.Enabled = true

for _, UIs in Player.PlayerGui:GetChildren() do -- This'll get all the ScreenGui elemets under PlayerGui
	if not table.find(DisabledUIs, UIs.Name) and UIs:IsA("ScreenGui") and UIs.Name ~= "Dialogue" then
		table.insert(DisabledUIs, UIs.Name) -- This'll handle duplicate prevention & later re-enabled ones that were disabled
		
		UIs.Enabled = false
	end
end

wait(5)

Player.PlayerGui.Dialogue.Enabled = false

for _, UIs in Player.PlayerGui:GetChildren() do
	if table.find(DisabledUIs, UIs.Name) and UIs:IsA("ScreenGui") and UIs.Name ~= "Dialogue" then
		for Index, Items in pairs(DisabledUIs) do
			if DisabledUIs == UIs.Name then
				table.remove(DisabledUIs, Index)
				break
			end
		end
		
		UIs.Enabled = true
	end
end

Edit: This is assuming the UI items you want to disable are ScreenGui’s under the Player’s PlayerGui, you can also use GetDescendants to filter out more.

#3

there seems no way to exit the while loop, so your second part of code that is outside of the while loop will never get called

#4

Why not use functions?

function ShowUI()
   UIFrame.Visible = true
end

function CloseUI()
   UIFrame.Visible = false
end

OpenUIButton.Activated:Connect(ShowUI)
CloseUIButton.Activated:Connect(CloseUI)
#5

Use task.spawn():

local IsVisible = false
task.spawn(function()
while wait() do
	if script.Parent.Dialogue.Enabled then
		IsVisible = true
		for _, GUI in script.Parent:GetChildren() do
			if GUI.Name ~= "Dialogue" then
				GUI.Enabled = false
			end
		end
	end
end
end)

if IsVisible and script.Parent.Dialogue.Enabled then
	IsVisible = false
	for _, GUI in script.Parent:GetChildren() do
		if GUI.Name ~= "Dialogue" then
			GUI.Enabled = true
		end
	end
end
#6

I don’t recommend you to use while loop to check Dialogue is Enabled. This will significantly increase CPU usage.

Instead, you can update their Gui Visibility when they toggle Dialogue.

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#7

This.

script.Parent.Dialogue.Changed:Connect(function()
    if script.Parent.Dialogue.Enabled then
    ...

This should work, although I’m not sure whether Enabled works with Changed. Worth a shot though.

#8

Although all of these work quite well, this one will work best for me now that I think about it. Since I’m going to use remote/bindable events, this will let me easily integrate it into my actual dialogue function. Thanks for the help :slight_smile: