I have a surfaceGui and was wondering how I could make the middle textlabel show how many items are in my backpack/hotbar
If anyone can give me some docs or a video explaining how to do this, I would really appreciate it
Quickly written but this should get the job done:
local Player = game:GetService('Players').LocalPlayer
local Backpack = Player.Backpack
function GetToolsCount()
local Count = 0
for _,v in {unpack(Backpack:GetChildren()), unpack(Player.Character:GetChildren())} do
if v.ClassName == 'Tool' then
Count+=1
end
end
return Count
end
So I got it to work on normal ScreenGui but it doesn’t seem to work on SurfaceGui
heres my code
local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local Backpack = Player:WaitForChild("Backpack")
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local TextLabel = script.Parent
local function GetToolsCount()
local Count = 0
for _, v in ipairs(Backpack:GetChildren()) do
if v:IsA("Tool") then
Count += 1
end
end
for _, v in ipairs(Character:GetChildren()) do
if v:IsA("Tool") then
Count += 1
end
end
return Count
end
local function UpdateLabel()
TextLabel.Text = "Tools: " .. GetToolsCount()
end
Backpack.ChildAdded:Connect(UpdateLabel)
Backpack.ChildRemoved:Connect(UpdateLabel)
Character.ChildAdded:Connect(UpdateLabel)
Character.ChildRemoved:Connect(UpdateLabel)
Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(newChar)
Character = newChar
Character.ChildAdded:Connect(UpdateLabel)
Character.ChildRemoved:Connect(UpdateLabel)
UpdateLabel()
end)
UpdateLabel()
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local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ScreenGui = Instance.new("ScreenGui") do
ScreenGui.IgnoreGuiInset = true
ScreenGui.ResetOnSpawn = false
ScreenGui.ScreenInsets = Enum.ScreenInsets.None
ScreenGui.ZIndexBehavior = Enum.ZIndexBehavior.Sibling
end
--[Children] {
local TextLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel") do
TextLabel.AnchorPoint = Vector2.one
TextLabel.BackgroundColor3 = Color3.new(1,1,1)
TextLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
TextLabel.BorderColor3 = Color3.new(0,0,0)
TextLabel.BorderSizePixel = 0
TextLabel.FontFace = Font.new("rbxasset://fonts/families/SourceSansPro.json",Enum.FontWeight.Regular,Enum.FontStyle.Normal)
TextLabel.Position = UDim2.new(1,0,1,0)
TextLabel.Size = UDim2.new(0,87,0,104)
TextLabel.Text = "0"
TextLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1,1,1)
TextLabel.TextScaled = true
TextLabel.TextSize = 14
TextLabel.TextWrapped = true
Instance.new("UIAspectRatioConstraint",TextLabel)
TextLabel.Parent = ScreenGui
end
--}
local plr = Players.LocalPlayer::Player
local PlayerGui = plr:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")::PlayerGui
local function CharAdded(char:Model):()
local backpack = plr:WaitForChild("Backpack")::Backpack
local function UpdateCount():()
TextLabel.Text = tostring(#backpack:GetChildren()+((char:FindFirstChildOfClass("Tool") and 1) or 0))
end
backpack.ChildAdded:Connect(UpdateCount)
backpack.ChildRemoved:Connect(UpdateCount)
UpdateCount()
end
plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(CharAdded)
local char = plr.Character::Model?
if char then CharAdded(char) end
ScreenGui.Parent=PlayerGui
I got this to work on a screenGui with this code
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local TextLabel = script.Parent
local plr = Players.LocalPlayer::Player
local PlayerGui = plr:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")::PlayerGui
local function CharAdded(char:Model):()
local backpack = plr:WaitForChild("Backpack")::Backpack
local function UpdateCount():()
TextLabel.Text = tostring(#backpack:GetChildren()+((char:FindFirstChildOfClass("Tool") and 1) or 0))
end
backpack.ChildAdded:Connect(UpdateCount)
backpack.ChildRemoved:Connect(UpdateCount)
UpdateCount()
end
plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(CharAdded)
local char = plr.Character::Model?
if char then CharAdded(char) end
but I could not get it to work on a surfaceGui and I can’t figure out why
here’s the layout
its not that hard just ask me I’ll help you
try testing this script, place it in a Script, and change the RunContext (on script properties) to “Client” and place the script inside the TextLabel
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local LocalPlayer = Players.LocalPlayer
local Backpack = LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("Backpack") :: Backpack
local Character = LocalPlayer.Character or LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local TextLabel = script.Parent
local MaxTools = 38
local function UpdateToolsCount(Tool: Tool)
if Tool ~= nil then
if not Tool:IsA('Tool') then return end
end
task.defer(function()
local BackpackTools = #Backpack:GetChildren()
local CharacterTool = Character:FindFirstChildWhichIsA('Tool') and 1 or 0
TextLabel.Text = `{BackpackTools + CharacterTool}/{MaxTools}`
end)
end
Backpack.ChildAdded:Connect(UpdateToolsCount)
Backpack.ChildRemoved:Connect(UpdateToolsCount)
Character.ChildAdded:Connect(UpdateToolsCount)
UpdateToolsCount(nil)
yes please! this is the script i have right now
local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local Backpack = Player:WaitForChild("Backpack")
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local TextLabel = script.Parent
local function GetToolsCount()
local Count = 0
for _, v in ipairs(Backpack:GetChildren()) do
if v:IsA("Tool") then
Count += 1
end
end
for _, v in ipairs(Character:GetChildren()) do
if v:IsA("Tool") then
Count += 1
end
end
return Count
end
local function UpdateLabel()
TextLabel.Text = "Tools: " .. GetToolsCount()
end
Backpack.ChildAdded:Connect(UpdateLabel)
Backpack.ChildRemoved:Connect(UpdateLabel)
Character.ChildAdded:Connect(UpdateLabel)
Character.ChildRemoved:Connect(UpdateLabel)
Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(newChar)
Character = newChar
Character.ChildAdded:Connect(UpdateLabel)
Character.ChildRemoved:Connect(UpdateLabel)
UpdateLabel()
end)
UpdateLabel()
and it works on textlabels in screenguis but not in any surfaceguis i make
still doesn’t work on surfaceGuis, does roblox handle those differently on the client?
Put the LocalScript in StarterGui and edit Surface gui from there
Also if ur using ChildAdded and ChildRemoved, the might aswell not use GetToolsCount and just have a counter like u have right there and increment / decrement on those events.
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