How to check if any of the buttons are pressed in a GUI

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#1

Hello!

I have a GUI where there are numerous buttons, and when one is pressed, it will fire a RemoteEvent. How can I make it so when any of the buttons are pressed, it will fire the RemoteEvent?

Thank you in advance. I can show screenshots if you need me to.

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How do I check if either GUIs are clicked?
#2

How is your explorer set up so we can further help you (yes send some screenshots of explorer)

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#3

You can use a for loop and loop through the buttons:

local Buttons = {Button1, Button2}
local Remote = RemoteEvent
for i, v in pairs(Buttons) do
    v.Button1Down:Connect(function()
        Remote:FireServer()
    end)
end
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Problems with disconnecting a function
#4

One way would be to use an Mouse Event in each button.

local button = script.Parent

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
print("Pressed")
end)
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#5

Yes, but I have multiple buttons that I want to track when any of them click. Not just the one.

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#6

You can use @TheParkourGamer10’s print command for each button.

EX: The Exit button

local Exitbutton = script.Parent – Change name so the script can tell the difference

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
print(“PressedExit”)
end)

EX: The Open Button

local Openbutton = script.Parent – Change name so the script can tell the difference

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
print(“PressedOpen”)
end)

Then simply put that on the same script.

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#7

You can for loop it but I wouldn’t recommend wrapping the for loop in a while/repeat loop just to see when the button was pressed. Then again you can always make 1 script and put multiple button events in that script instead of using 1 script per button.

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#8

The issue with this is that my buttons are being created via Instance.new. I cannot make a new script and edit it on the fly so this method does not work.

Also @AidanPlaysYT_Real that does not help either. I already know how to use those functions but I’m asking how to check if multiple buttons are pressed.

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#9

If you’re creating the buttons using Instance.new() just connect the function to the event after creating it. Example:

local Button = Instance.new("TextButton")
Button.Parent = GUI 

Button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
  print("Clicked")
end)

If you’re trying to set multiple buttons, create the buttons first and then simply connect them all to the same function, for example:

local Button = Instance.new("TextButton")
Button.Parent = GUI

local Button2 = Instance.new("TextButton")
Button2.Parent = GUI

local Button3 = Instance.new("TextButton")
Button3.Parent = GUI


local function OnClick() 
   print("Clicked")
end

Button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(OnClick)

Button2.MouseButton1Click:Connect(OnClick)

Button3.MouseButton1Click:Connect(OnClick)
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#10

This is useful; however I don’t know how many buttons will be created until the buttons are displayed as it depends on current player count. This means even if I do 5 buttons, if there are 6 players, this function will not work. This is why I do not want to set a finite amount.

Thanks for the help, though.

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#11

You could always set them into a table and check how many there are using “#”

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#12

This issue has been resolved. I have fixed it. Thank you for the replies.

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#14

Please post a solution. I need help too. (@LittleGuyForHire )

Edit:

@LittleGuyForHire MasterTiitus has solved it here:

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#15

you can use this:

local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local Mouse = player:GetMouse()
local PlayerGui = player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")

function onButton1Down()
local guis = PlayerGui:GetGuiObjectsAtPosition(Mouse.X,Mouse.Y)
print("Button Down on "..guis[1].Name)
end

Mouse.Button1Down:Connect(onButton1Down)
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