How could i detect if any buttons inside a list of children have been clicked, then get what button was clicked?

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#1

heres a concept script (does not work)

local event = game.ReplicatedStorage.SMH

local Files = script.Parent.Main.Main:GetChildren()

Files.Button.Clicked:Connect(function(Button)
	print(Button.."".."Clickeed!")
end)

Is there anyway to achive this?

#2 
local btns = folder

for _, btn in btns:GetChildren() do
  btn.Clicked:Connect(function()
    -- "btn" would be the button instance
    print(btn.Name.." was clicked")
  end)
end
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#3

so for refrence, the folder im looking in has frames, and in the frames are the buttons. does this script account for that?

#4 
local frames = folder

for _, frame in frames:GetChildren() do
  for _, btn in frame:GetChildren() do
      btn.Clicked:Connect(function()
        -- "btn" would be the button instance
      print(btn.Name.." was clicked")
    end)
  end
end

If there are other types of instances in the frame other than buttons then you can use the :IsA() function to make sure it’s a button.

#5

one of the instances in the folder is a grid layout, will the break the script?

#6

Use the :IsA() function to check if the class is valid and if not then skip the iteration using the continue keyword.

#7

i get this error:
Clicked is not a valid member of TextButton “Players.Vortexuel560.PlayerGui.SpawnMenuWindow.SM.Main.Main.Battery.TextButton”

With this script:

local event = game.ReplicatedStorage.SMH

local frames = script.Parent.Main.Main

for _, frame in frames:GetChildren() do
	if frame:IsA("Frame") then
		for _, btn in frame:GetChildren() do
			if btn:IsA("TextButton") then
				btn.Clicked:Connect(function()
					-- "btn" would be the button instance
					print(btn.Parent.Name.." was clicked")
				end)
			end
		end
	end
end
#8

I’d recommend utilizing :GetDescendants() for that if you want to retrieve all of the buttons within the given frames (especially if some are nested beyond the first layer of each frame).

Otherwise, if you know for sure that there will only be buttons on the first layer of those frames, you could continue using two :GetChildren() loops

An event with the name of “Clicked” currently does not exist for TextButtons. The primary events that are used to detect if a GuiButton has been pressed are Activated or MouseButton1Click.


Example Revision

local parentObject = script.Parent
local Main1 = parentObject:WaitForChild("Main")
local Main2 = Main1:WaitForChild("Main")

local function buttonFunctionality(object)
    if not object:IsA("GuiButton") then return end

    object.Activated:Connect(function()
        print(object.Name.." was activated")
    end)
end

for _, object in Main2:GetDescendants() do
    buttonFunctionality(object)
end

Main2.DescendantAdded:Connect(buttonFunctionality)
--[[ If any new objects are added to the second "Main" folder, whether it's
directly in the folder or inside of any of the frames, it'll call the
"buttonFunctionality" function to make sure that any buttons that hadn't
existed when the LocalScript first looped through its descendants will have the
button activation event connected to a function --]]