How do you change a Textbox font by script?

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#1

So I was making a word processing software inside roblox (For simulation purposes, I am not trying to compete with large word processing softwares and it wasn’t intended for profiting off it). Anyway, I was trying to change the font of a textbox when a button is clicked.
So:

  1. What do you want to achieve? A button that changes font of a textbox.
  2. What is the issue? I can’t seem to make it work.
  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Checked online but I can’t find one.

script I am trying to use:

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	game.StarterGui.ScreenGui.Frame.TextBox.Text.Font = Enum.Font.AmaticSC
end)

Feel free to ask questions if you don’t seem to understand mine.

#2

do this

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	game.StarterGui.ScreenGui.Frame.TextBox.Font = "AmaticSC"
end)

Font is already a property of the TextBox so you don’t do TextBox.Text.Font, instead you do TextBox.Font. Also I would personally prefer using string for the font since it is faster to type xD

#3

The font which is changing is in the Starter Gui
Everything replicates to player gui.
Therefore instead of addressing like that go through the parents
eg script.Parent…

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#4

Try this:

local TextBox = -- set this to the textbox but se script.Parent, script.Parent.Parent, etc. 
script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	TextBox.Font = "AmaticSC"
end)
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#5

I just realized a mistake in the code. This code actually changes the TextBox in the StarterGui… You should change the TextBox inside the PlayerGui. Here is the new code

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	game.Players.LocalPlayer.ScreenGui.Frame.TextBox.Font = "AmaticSC"
end)

Make sure that there is only 1 screenGui that has the name “ScreenGui” or else it might choose a different ScreenGui

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#7

You can change fonts with a String though. I just made a quick test in a new baseplate with this code

while true do
   wait(1)
   script.Parent.Font = "Antique"
   wait(1)
   script.Parent.Font = "SourceSans"
end

And it changed the font every second.

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#8

Whether or not that is necessarily good practice is a different story though. You also can’t compare fonts the same way. (Enum.Font.SourceSans ~= "SourceSans")
So for consistency you may not want to do that. There’s also the argument that it could perform better, as no implicit casting is done from string → Enum.Font, but that’s mostly negligible. You should run a test though.

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Is it possible to make like a "Ctrl + f" function in a textbox using a script?
#9

True, Enum.Font may perform better than using strings. I just started coding so I don’t prioritize script performance yet lol. But yes, like I said, it is just a personal preference, I don’t recommend anybody to use strings if it performs slower than Enum.Font.

(also let’s stop this conversation since this solved post keeps getting revived xD)