Plugin Toolbar Button sharing Toolbar with another separate Plugin

[WinnersTakesAll (Winnerz)]

I am looking to be able to use one toolbar to host two of my plugins which are separate marketplace plugins. A good example of this is Stravant’s plugins which share the same toolbar, which can be seen below. How can I reference an existing toolbar from plugin to plugin?

The problem is that when I create a toolbar with the same name it will create two separate toolbars instead of one.

Below is the code I used for making the toolbars and button. I have tried to search everywhere for a solution but can’t find any. I thought of referencing the toolbar but can’t wrap my head around how.

local toolbar = plugin:CreateToolbar("Text Tools")

local button = toolbar:CreateButton("SignsPro", "Hide/show the Signs Widget.", "", "Signs")

local widget = plugin:CreateDockWidgetPluginGui("Signs", widgetInfo)
widget.Title = "Signs"
widget.Name = "Signs"

-- Pretend this is another plugin script.
local toolbar = plugin:CreateToolbar("Text Tools")

local button = toolbar:CreateButton("SignsFree", "Hide/show the Signs Widget.", "", "Signs Free")

local widget = plugin:CreateDockWidgetPluginGui("Signs", widgetInfo)
widget.Title = "Signs"
widget.Name = "Signs"

[Sim_Q1 (Sim)]

What if you just split the two plugins into 2 different scripts and publish them separate.

[WinnersTakesAll (Winnerz)]

Isn’t that what I’m doing right now? I have two different published plugins which each has one script. Could you specify what you mean?

[Sim_Q1 (Sim)]

@WinnersTakesAll

local toolbar = plugin:CreateToolbar("Text Tools")

local button = toolbar:CreateButton("SignsPro", "Hide/show the Signs Widget.", "", "Signs")

local widget = plugin:CreateDockWidgetPluginGui("Signs", widgetInfo)
widget.Title = "Signs"
widget.Name = "Signs"

Publish This one first to roblox then publish the other half

[WinnersTakesAll (Winnerz)]

This does not work. Same issue still persists.

[xDeltaXen]

If anyone know a solution or a better way to do this I would love to hear it.

Try this:
local toolbar = plugin:CreateToolbar(“Text Tools”)

local button = toolbar:CreateButton(“SignsPro”, “Hide/show the Signs Widget.”, “”, “Signs”)

local widget = plugin:CreateDockWidgetPluginGui(“Signs”, widgetInfo)
widget.Title = “Signs”
widget.Name = “Signs”

– Pretend this is another plugin script.
toolbar = plugin:FindFirstChild(“Text Tools”)
if toolbar then
local button = toolbar:CreateButton(“SignsFree”, “Hide/show the Signs Widget.”, “”, “Signs Free”)
else
plugin:CreateToolbar(“Text Tools”)
end

local widget = plugin:CreateDockWidgetPluginGui(“Signs”, widgetInfo)
widget.Title = “Signs”
widget.Name = “Signs”


[WinnersTakesAll (Winnerz)]

toolbar isn’t a local so the other part of the script just errors. I’ve already tried something like this but it doesn’t work.

[tukars]

probablytukars/toolbarManager/blob/main/src/toolbarManager.lua

You can try this (I made it because I was facing the exact same problem)

Use a module script, require, and use functions, will let you share toolbars