How to add a new letter/number when pressing a button?

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#1

Hello!

I am currently stuck with a question that I can’t seem to crack. And that is:

How do you add a new letter/number on a TextLabel when a button is pressed?

I tried searching in #resources:community-tutorials but I didn’t find anything.

Any help will be appriciated!

#2

What do you want tell me more?

#3

I use a keypad based on parts. And I want so that everytime I press a digit it updates the Text property.

Example:

0001

Pressed 9

00019

#4

You can have the buttons be named the letter/number it should append to the text and add the letter based on the name of the button

Example

Button.Activated:Connect(function()
    Textlabel.Text ..= Button.Name
end)
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#5

Create a localscript inside The GUI With the function then you can use the UserInputService Service In Order to get the Keypad input

#6

As I said, i’m using parts. Not textbuttons

#7 
 local texts = {"1001"; "test"; "lol";}

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
      textLabel.Text = texts[math.random(1, #texts)]
end
#8

Oh you’re using parts, in which my idea should still apply, but rather you just use the MouseClick event instead of Activated

#9

You can try using this example code to make that, this will also work with letters.

digit.Activated:Connect(function()
    local newAmount = #textLabel.Text + 1 -- how long the number will be now

    if newAmount >= 5 then -- if the length of the new number is over or at 5
        return
    end

    textLabel.Text ..= digit.Text -- combine the number to the textlabel's text
end)
#10 
local Gui = script.Parent

Gui.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
Gui.Text = tonumber(math.random())
end
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#11

Also, do you know how I can tell if it’s at the character limit?

#12

In terms of character limit, you could do what @aguythatsreallybored mentioned via getting the length of the current text in the label and if it’s above a certain length, do nothing.

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