How do you disconnect an event from inside itself?

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1

I’m trying to have my button disconnect after its being clicked - but PlaceButton:Disconnect() says that it is unknown globally. How would I go about disconnecting it?

		local PlaceButton = UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
			if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
				if PlacingStructure == true and goodToPlace == true then
					local StructureCFrame = clientStructure.PrimaryPart.CFrame
					PlacedStructure = PlaceStructure:InvokeServer(clientStructure.Name, StructureCFrame)
					PlacingItem = nil
					if PlacedStructure == true then
						PlacingStructure = false
						clientStructure:Destroy()
						Render:Disconnect()
						Rotates:Disconnect()
						Rotate:Disconnect()
						PlaceButton:Disconnect()
					end
				end
			end			
		end)
2

Try this:

local PlaceButton
PlaceButton = UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
	if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
		if PlacingStructure == true and goodToPlace == true then
			local StructureCFrame = clientStructure.PrimaryPart.CFrame
			PlacedStructure = PlaceStructure:InvokeServer(clientStructure.Name, StructureCFrame)
			PlacingItem = nil
			if PlacedStructure == true then
				PlacingStructure = false
				clientStructure:Destroy()
				Render:Disconnect()
				Rotates:Disconnect()
				Rotate:Disconnect()
				PlaceButton:Disconnect()
			end
		end
	end			
end)
3

Thanks it works! Why does it behave that way?

4

It must be because the thread inside the event cannot access the variable. To be able to access the variable it has to be in the same thread.

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