I’m trying to make a button for my plugin that when you click it, it makes a script in the workspace that has all the colours in the palette. If you could help me, it would be greatly appreciated and I don’t want all my writing and time going to waste ;-;
-- Written by xCynacol 2020
-- !NOTICE! --
-- Colours soon to be in alphabetical order.
-- Green Colours --
--[[
Lime green
Grime
Forest green
Dark green
Slime green
Earth green
Camo
Parsley green
Shamrock
Sea green
Bright green
Bright bluish green
Artichoke
Moss
Sand green
Br. yellowish green
Sage green
Pastel green
Medium green
Mint
Olivine
Laurel green
Pastel blue-green
]]
-- Yellow Colours --
--[[
New Yeller
Gold
Br. yellowish green
Olive
Deep orange
Pastel yellow
Cool yellow
Buttermilk
]]
-- Blue Colours --
--[[
Dark blue
Navy blue
Bright bluish green
Deep blue
Teal
Toothpaste
Pastel blue-green
Steel blue
Lapis
Storm blue
Pastel Blue
Light blue
Baby blue
Cyan
Pastel light blue
Cadet blue
Medium blue
Electric blue
Bright blue
]]
-- Pink/Purple Colours --
--[[
Magenta
Hot pink
Pink
Dark indigo
Mulberry
Eggplant
Royal purple
Lavender
Bright violet
Plum
Lilac
Alder
Pastel violet
Carnation pink
]]
-- Red Colours --
--[[
Crimson
Maroon
Bright red
Really red
Persimmon
]]
-- Monochromatic (grey, black, white) Colours --
--[[
Really black
Black
Lily white
Institutional white
Dark stone grey
Fossil
Medium stone grey
Smoky grey
Hurricane grey
Oyster
Cloudy grey
Quill grey
Mid grey
Ghost grey
Pearl
Fog
Light stone grey
White
Flint
]]
-- Brown/Peach Colours --
--[[
Cocoa
Rust
Burgundy
Brown
Dark orange
Burnt Sienna
Dusty Rose
Terra Cotta
Tawny
Salmon
Pastel orange
Medium red
Light orange
Pastel brown
Seashell
Nougat
Brick yellow
Copper
Linen
Dark taupe
Neon orange
CGA brown
Reddish brown
Pine Cone
Dirt brown
Bright orange
Wheat
Br. yellowish orange
Cashmere
Khaki
Cork
Burlap
Beige
Fawn brown
Sand red
Bronze
]]
(The name of the plugin is Workspace Manager, and I got a warning for putting an image for the little icon of the Workspace in studio as the icon of the plugin)
Long strings can be created using the double square bracket notation
toolbarColourListButton.Click:Connect( function ()
local colourList = Instance.new( "Script" )
colourList.Name = "Colour List"
colourList.Source = [[-- Written by xCynacol 2020
-- !NOTICE! --
-- Colours soon to be in alphabetical order.
-- Green Colours --
--[[
Lime green
Grime
Forest green
Dark green
Slime green
Earth green
Camo
Parsley green
.......etc
]]
]]
colourList.Parent = workspace
end )
And to answer your second post, yes you will get warned if you in any way imitate or pretend to be built-in tools and services. You’re a third party plugin - use your own icon rather than causing confusion with a trusted icon.
toolbarColourListButton.Click:Connect(function()
local colourList = Instance.new("Script", workspace)
colourList.Name = "Colour List"
colourList.Source = [[
-- Written by xCynacol 2020
-- !NOTICE! --
-- Colours soon to be in alphabetical order.
-- Green Colours --
--[[
Lime green
Grime
Forest green
Dark green
Slime green
Earth green
Camo
Parsley green
Shamrock
Sea green
Bright green
Bright bluish green
Artichoke
Moss
Sand green
Br. yellowish green
Sage green
Pastel green
Medium green
Mint
Olivine
Laurel green
Pastel blue-green
]]
-- Yellow Colours --
--[[
New Yeller
Gold
Br. yellowish green
Olive
Deep orange
Pastel yellow
Cool yellow
Buttermilk
]]
-- Blue Colours --
--[[
Dark blue
Navy blue
Bright bluish green
Deep blue
Teal
Toothpaste
Pastel blue-green
Steel blue
Lapis
Storm blue
Pastel Blue
Light blue
Baby blue
Cyan
Pastel light blue
Cadet blue
Medium blue
Electric blue
Bright blue
]]
-- Pink/Purple Colours --
--[[
Magenta
Hot pink
Pink
Dark indigo
Mulberry
Eggplant
Royal purple
Lavender
Bright violet
Plum
Lilac
Alder
Pastel violet
Carnation pink
]]
-- Red Colours --
--[[
Crimson
Maroon
Bright red
Really red
Persimmon
]]
-- Monochromatic (grey, black, white) Colours --
--[[
Really black
Black
Lily white
Institutional white
Dark stone grey
Fossil
Medium stone grey
Smoky grey
Hurricane grey
Oyster
Cloudy grey
Quill grey
Mid grey
Ghost grey
Pearl
Fog
Light stone grey
White
Flint
]]
-- Brown/Peach Colours --
--[[
Cocoa
Rust
Burgundy
Brown
Dark orange
Burnt Sienna
Dusty Rose
Terra Cotta
Tawny
Salmon
Pastel orange
Medium red
Light orange
Pastel brown
Seashell
Nougat
Brick yellow
Copper
Linen
Dark taupe
Neon orange
CGA brown
Reddish brown
Pine Cone
Dirt brown
Bright orange
Wheat
Br. yellowish orange
Cashmere
Khaki
Cork
Burlap
Beige
Fawn brown
Sand red
Bronze
]]
]]
end)
And the error I got was:
Expected identifier when parsing expression, got ‘]’
In your source, replace all of the [[ and ]] comment opening and closing lines with \[\[ and \]\].
Then, before writing to the source of the script, do a string.gsub to replace them all.
Here’s a simplified example:
local s = [[
This is some code here
-- This is a comment
--\[\[
This is a multiline comment
\]\]
And here is some code
]]
s = s:gsub( '\\[', '[' )
s = s:gsub( '\\]', ']' )
yourNewScript.Source = s
--VARIABLES--
local colourListText = [[
-- Written by xCynacol 2020
-- !NOTICE! --
-- Colours soon to be in alphabetical order.
-- Green Colours --
--\[\[
Lime green
Grime
Forest green
Dark green
Slime green
Earth green
Camo
Parsley green
Shamrock
Sea green
Bright green
Bright bluish green
Artichoke
Moss
Sand green
Br. yellowish green
Sage green
Pastel green
Medium green
Mint
Olivine
Laurel green
Pastel blue-green
\]\]
-- Yellow Colours --
--\[\[
New Yeller
Gold
Br. yellowish green
Olive
Deep orange
Pastel yellow
Cool yellow
Buttermilk
\]\]
-- Blue Colours --
--\[\[
Dark blue
Navy blue
Bright bluish green
Deep blue
Teal
Toothpaste
Pastel blue-green
Steel blue
Lapis
Storm blue
Pastel Blue
Light blue
Baby blue
Cyan
Pastel light blue
Cadet blue
Medium blue
Electric blue
Bright blue
\]\]
-- Pink/Purple Colours --
--\[\[
Magenta
Hot pink
Pink
Dark indigo
Mulberry
Eggplant
Royal purple
Lavender
Bright violet
Plum
Lilac
Alder
Pastel violet
Carnation pink
\]\]
-- Red Colours --
--\[\[
Crimson
Maroon
Bright red
Really red
Persimmon
\]\]
-- Monochromatic (grey, black, white) Colours --
--\[\[
Really black
Black
Lily white
Institutional white
Dark stone grey
Fossil
Medium stone grey
Smoky grey
Hurricane grey
Oyster
Cloudy grey
Quill grey
Mid grey
Ghost grey
Pearl
Fog
Light stone grey
White
Flint
\]\]
-- Brown/Peach Colours --
--\[\[
Cocoa
Rust
Burgundy
Brown
Dark orange
Burnt Sienna
Dusty Rose
Terra Cotta
Tawny
Salmon
Pastel orange
Medium red
Light orange
Pastel brown
Seashell
Nougat
Brick yellow
Copper
Linen
Dark taupe
Neon orange
CGA brown
Reddish brown
Pine Cone
Dirt brown
Bright orange
Wheat
Br. yellowish orange
Cashmere
Khaki
Cork
Burlap
Beige
Fawn brown
Sand red
Bronze
\]\]
]]
colourListText = colourListText:gsub('\\[', '[')
colourListText = colourListText:gsub('\\]', ']')
-- Variable Instances
local toolbar = plugin:CreateToolbar("Workspace Manager")
local toolbarNewPartButton = toolbar:CreateButton("New Part", "Creates a new part in the Workspace (you can put it where you want)", "rbxassetid://13951636")
local toolbarColourListButton = toolbar:CreateButton("Colour List", "Creates a list of all colours in the Workspace", "rbxassetid://15205694")
toolbarNewPartButton.Click:Connect(function()
local newPart = Instance.new("Part", workspace)
end)
toolbarColourListButton.Click:Connect(function()
local colourList = Instance.new("Script", workspace)
colourList.Name = "Colour List"
colourList.Source = colourListText
end)
You can have [[ within a multiline string but not ]]. Any [['s after are just treated as the contents of the string, but ]] closes off the string. You can have an arbitrary amount of ='s in between the opening and closing brackets as long as they match.
colourList.Source = [==[-- Written by xCynacol 2020
-- !NOTICE! --
-- Colours soon to be in alphabetical order.
-- Green Colours --
--[[
Lime green
Grime
Forest green
Dark green
Slime green
Earth green
Camo
Parsley green
.......etc
]]
]==]
Notice the 2 equal signs I put in between the brackets that enclose the string. The amount can be arbitrary however the amount must be the same for the opening and closing brackets. You could do this to the comments instead as well.
