How would I make an imagebutton hidden to the local player only?

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#1

Hi there, I have a playerlist GUI with a friend request button. How would I make button hidden from the local player as the gui is in ReplicatedStorage and cloned to the scrolling frame of my GUI in StarterGui?

I don’t have an attempt since the GUI is cloned from ReplicatedStorage which I have no idea how to start from there.

#2

Do you mean the ui that you made will be cloned to the client gui (PlayerGui)? Cause if in StarterGui, then no one will be able to see it.

#3

I believe that your trying to make the client(player) not be able to view the friend request button to itself??

#4

Yeah. This is a screenshot of the explorer to help you understand better.

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#5

Change the Visible property for that specific player using a LocalScript. You can achieve this using remotes, or changing a value on the server which is also visiible for that specific client. There are a lot ways to achieve it but the main idea is to force a client script to apply a local change at a specific moment.

Edit: if you want it to hide by default just do ImageButton.Visible = false from a client script before parenting the UI(or if the UI is in StarterGui set the value when the LocalScript starts).

#6

How would I define the local player in a if scenario? I’m going to try and use if however, how would I do that with a variable that defines the local player?

#7

Also the reason my solution didn’t work on the previous post was cause you renamed your TextLabel to name for it to work it has to be named PlayerName.

#8 
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer

print(Player.Name)
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#9

Yeah I noticed that, I’ll actually make that the solution since I solved it already to a issue relating to that.

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#10

How do I do something like this then? I know the script is incorrect.

local players = game:GetService("Players")
local players2 = players.LocalPlayer

local gui = script.Parent.Parent.StarterGui.PlayerList.Frame.ScrollingFrame.Template.ImageButton

if players2 then
	gui.Visible = false
end
#11

You don’t even have to use an if statement, if it’s a LocalScript the changes you make will always apply for that specific Player(basically the statement is always true).

#12

Ohh, I understand now. But the thing is, is that multiple of these buttons are cloned of a frame because of the playerlist, so wouldn’t that mean all buttons would be invisible if this was the case?

#13

Which buttons do you want to be visible and which invisible?(which condition must be true for any of these?)

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#14

Just the image button for the local player. The screenshot below shows the friend request button. That imagebutton is under a frame, which is cloned to the same parent (that being the scrolling frame) for every player in the server. I want only the local player’s image button hidden for them.

#15

What I’m trying to figure out is how would I make it so that only this imagebutton out of the rest is hidden to the local player since multiple of the same parent is cloned under scrolling frame

#16

When making scripts like this, you must identify the condition that is true for that specific player. In our case the condition is Player.Name == frame.Name you can use that to disable the button for the specific frame.

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local Player = Players.LocalPlayer

local ScrollingGui = script.Parent.ScrollingGui --your scrolling UI path
local frame = ScrollingGui:WaitForChild(Player.Name)
local button = frame:WaitForChild("ImageButton")

--button:Destroy() --destroy the button if you don't plan to use it anyway
--or else:
button.Visible = false
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#17

Would you need double equal signs for that condition? Why would you, wouldn’t it work the same with just one?

#18

= and == aren’t the same. = is used to set a value while == is used to check if a value is equal to another one.

In our case we can just retrieve the specific frame using ScrollingGui:WaitForChild(Player.Name) cause all the frames are named with player usernames.

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#19

I just tried the script out and I think something is wrong. I checked scrolling frame to see if the GUI was cloned to there however nothing is there yet the gui still shows up. Is there something wrong?

#20

Here’s the script that parents the frame

game.StarterGui:SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.PlayerList, false)

local players1 = game:GetService("Players")
local players2 = players1.LocalPlayer

local userId = players2.UserId
local thumbType = Enum.ThumbnailType.HeadShot
local thumbSize = Enum.ThumbnailSize.Size420x420
local content, isReady = players1:GetUserThumbnailAsync(userId, thumbType, thumbSize)

local function temp (player)
	local frame = game.ReplicatedStorage.Template:Clone()
	frame.Parent = script.Parent.Frame.ScrollingFrame
	frame.Name = player.Name
	frame.name.Text = player.Name
	frame.Visible = true
	frame.ImageLabel.Image = content
end

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	temp(plr)
end)

for _,players in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
	temp(players)
end

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
	for i,v in pairs(script.Parent.Frame.ScrollingFrame:GetChildren()) do
		if v.Name == plr.Name then
			v:remove()
		end
	end
end)