How to find a GUI object closest to the players mouse?

[Aivy_Wavy (Aivyn)]

As title states, I’m trying to sort through GUIs and find the one with the closest on-screen position to the players mouse.

[Gmorcad12345 (ThalapathyGMC)]

(Frame.AbsolutePosition - Frame2.AbsolutePosition).Magnitude gives the distance between 2 GUIs. That’s all you need to know

[O3_O2]

My way is probably not the best way to go about it but, you can through each gui object, and check if the mouse x and mouse z position.

If you want it to be corner adjusting then thats slightly harder, but since you just want the closest one thats not a problem.

Here is my take on it.

PlayerGui
LocalScript

local playerGui = script.Parent -- In this case my script is just placed inside the PlayerGui
local mouse = game:GetService('Players').LocalPlayer:GetMouse()

local function getClosestGui(origin,maxdist,cycle)
	local dist = maxdist
	local target = nil
	for _, guiObj in pairs(cycle) do -- Cycle is a table of all the gui parts we want to check
		local objdist = (origin - guiObj.AbsolutePosition).Magnitude -- Magnitude
		if objdist < dist then -- Change the dist if its under the old dist
			dist = objdist
			target = guiObj
		end
	end
	return target -- Returns the gui object
end

mouse.Move:Connect(function()
	local objects = {}
	for _, v in pairs(playerGui.ScreenGui:GetChildren()) do
		-- Filtering out all of the non interface objects
		if v:IsA('Frame') or v:IsA('TextLabel') or v:IsA('TextButton') or v:IsA('TextBox') or v:IsA('ScrollingFrame') or v:IsA('ImageLabel') or v:IsA('ImageButton') then
			table.insert(objects,v)
		end
	end
	local target = getClosestGui(
		Vector2.new(mouse.X,mouse.Y), -- 2d origin
		math.huge, -- Max distance
		objects -- List of gui objects
	)
	print(target) -- Boom we got our target
end)