Plugin Widget unable to open again when closed

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#1

Hello, I’m starting to script lua widgets for my next plugin. For some reason the Dock UI won’t appear anymore as soon as I close it and open it again. I’ve tried making some changes to the code and the design, nothing seemed to work.
The error I keep getting in the “output” window is

19:30:45.877 - This plugin cannot create more than one PluginGui with id: "Ellipse"
19:30:45.878 - Stack Begin
19:30:45.878 - Script 'Plugin_EllipsePlus.rbxmx.Ellipse+.PluginCreator', Line 32 - function MenuShow
19:30:45.878 - Script 'Plugin_EllipsePlus.rbxmx.Ellipse+.PluginCreator', Line 50
19:30:45.879 - Stack End

Heres a video to show the problem in action.


Any suggestions? Thanks!

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#2

You can probably attach an incrementing variable to the Id, like: WidgetName.. num

num will increase by 1 each time the widget is created

#3

When the button is clicked, you should change Widget.Enabled to true instead of creating a new widget (which isn’t possible with the same name)

local toolbar = plugin:CreateToolbar("Toolbar")
local button = toolbar:CreateButton("Whatever", "...", "rbxassetid://87654321")

local widget = plugin:CreateDockWidgetPluginGui(info)

button.Click:Connect(function()
    widget.Enabled = not widget.Enabled
end)
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#4

This actually worked! Thank you for the suggestion, I’ll mark this as the solution.