PLEASE SOMEBODY HELP! (UNSOLVED) Please tell me how one of multiple choices are clicked? aSDnASDbsv,jh

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#1

Hello fellow developers and scripters! This is the second time I am posting my problem. Please help!

I want to create an NPC dialogue for many future projects, but I’m running into this obstacle:

From lines 26 to 46, I am having trouble looping through String Values, with all the NPC’s text and all the player’s responses/choices. (problem: How do I see if one of multiple options/choices are clicked?) So, I am trying to loop through all my choices and wait for one of them to be clicked to continue. It’s not working. I’ve done it before here:

but it doesn’t seem to work here.

The objects:

Dialogue Rules:

--[[

(Scroll right for the full description)

Explanation and Rules For The Dialogue Folder (for customization):

	-- Text --
	
	* Text: Text is what the NPC says. If there is another Text, a child of the main Text, that means that the NPC will say the first text, take a pause, and continue to the next.
	* ExitText: The Text of the NPC before the conversation or dialogue, if you want to call it that (a word that I like and overuse), ends.
	
	-- Choices --
	(Always numbered, unless there is one)
	
	* Choice: Choice is how you respond to the NPC's Text. There cannot be another Choice, a child of the Choice, like Text. Instead, there can be multiple choices under Text.
	* ExitChoice: The Choice that you make before the conversation ends. For example, "Goodbye!" or "Oh, I'll check it out'!" (There can only be one ExitChoices) . There can also be an ExitChoice and Choice in the same Text, but the ExitChoice must be numbered.

]]

-- SirHoog | September 25, 2022

The rules is just for other people

The script:

local talkEv = game.ReplicatedStorage.Talk
local transEv = game.ReplicatedStorage.TransScreen
local dText = script.Parent
local choiceButton = game.ReplicatedStorage.Choice
local mostRecentText
local mostRecentChoices
local mostRecentChoicePicked
local dialogueEnded = false

function typeWrite(text, speed, choiceDelay, choices) -- Tutorial by Alvin Blox - Youtube Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLXjta2F7Zw
	for i = 1, #text, 1 do
		dText.Text = string.sub(text, 1, i)
		
		wait(speed / #text)
	end
	
	wait(choiceDelay)
	
	for i, v in pairs(choices) do
		local newChoiceButton = choiceButton:Clone()
		
		newChoiceButton.Parent = dText.Parent.Choices
		newChoiceButton.Text.Text = v.Value
	end
	
	for i, v in pairs(dText.Parent.Choices:GetChildren()) do
		if v:FindFirstChild('Text') then
			print('test what????')
			
			v.Text.MouseButton1Up:Connect(function()
				
				print('test ahhhhhhhhhhh')
				if string.match(v.Name, 'ExitChoice') then
					dialogueEnded = true
					
					print('lol')
				else
					mostRecentChoicePicked = v
						
					print('sussy baja')
				end
				
				print('amogus testing')
			end)
		end
	end
end

transEv.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
	talkEv.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(dialogue)
		wait(3)
		
		dText.Parent.Parent.Enabled = true
		
		mostRecentText = dialogue.Text
		mostRecentChoices = dialogue.Text:GetChildren()
		
		--for i, v in pairs() do
			typeWrite(dialogue.Text.Value, 2, 0.5, mostRecentText:GetChildren())
			
			print('asbdkjas whattttt amogus?')
			
			if dialogueEnded then
				return
			end
		--end
	end)
end)

Thank you in advance! But it is extremely late for me to stay longer, so if I don’t respond, you know. :slight_smile:

#2

Can you show me what lines arent working, Im not sure if im using the right lines.

#3

What? What do you mean? As in the line 26 and 46?

#4

We can’t see lines numbers here

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#5

Yes, I would like to see line 26 and 46 in the script. Its hard to find specific lines in devforum.

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#6

It’s the for loop in the typeWrite function.

for i, v in pairs(dText.Parent.Choices:GetChildren()) do
		if v:FindFirstChild('Text') then
			print('test what????')
			
			v.Text.MouseButton1Up:Connect(function()
				
				print('test ahhhhhhhhhhh')
				if string.match(v.Name, 'ExitChoice') then
					dialogueEnded = true
					
					print('lol')
				else
					mostRecentChoicePicked = v
						
					print('sussy baja')
				end
				
				print('amogus testing')
			end)
		end
	end
#7

Which loop? the ‘Text’ one or the dText.Parent.Choices:GetChildren() or the v.Text.MouseButton1Up one?

#8

The dText.Parent.Choices:GetChildren() one. I sent it there:

#9

Alright, first of all, why are you using scripts for a NPC dialogue if roblox has one built in? Secondly, are you sure it doesn’t have errors or it was randomly pasted from a old 2016 (or even older!) YouTube video because then it would be outdated.
If that doesn’t fix it, i have no idea.

#10

1st: I don’t want to use the built in one. Ugly… I’m making a custom one (GUIs).
2nd: I wrote the code myself, but for the typewriting function, I followed an AlvinBlox tutorial; it still works.