Surface GUI Button Not Working (Not Your Usual Copy Paste Topic)

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#1

I am going to be honest, I’ve read all the topics that there is about this problem but none exactly suits my system. I tried the Adornee thing and checked the Active properties but none of them seem to work. This is 99.9% not a problem with scripting, as I have checked the script 100 times and asked the Scripting Support part of Help and Feedback.

My goal is simple. Click the button, do some stuff I want, disable the current Surface GUI, enable different Surface GUI, click the button, do some stuff I want, and so on.

The Adornee solution I don’t seem to understand, it works for others but the thing is that I have to enable that GUI and I am unsure how to do that. I’ve tried in a local script going to Starter GUI and getting it but that did not work.

I appreciate all of your contributions, I will be checking this topic often. Remember, every comment helps! Thank you for all of your support! :slight_smile:

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#2

Don’t do game.StarterGui, it doesn’t exist in running games!
start from the LocalScript to find your GUI object.
(ex: script.Parent.GUI)

Where’s my 100$?

EDIT: Could I see your script and explorer window?

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#3

Hey there, sorry about that haha, made a small typo.

The Surface GUI for some reason stays in Starter GUI, so nothing is happening, unsure why

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script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	print("wow done")
	local part = game.Workspace.CameraPart
	local TweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")

	local tweenInfo = TweenInfo.new(
		0.1, --Time
		Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, --Easing Style
		Enum.EasingDirection.Out --EasingDirection
	)

	local tween = TweenService:Create(part, tweenInfo, {Position = game.Workspace.target2.Position})
	tween:Play()

	game.Workspace.places.camm2.SurfaceGui.Enabled = false
	game.Workspace.places.cammm2:WaitForChild("SurfaceGui").Enabled = false
	TweenService:Create(
		game.Lighting.Blur, 
		TweenInfo.new(0.2), 
		{Size = 56} 
	):Play() 
	task.wait(0.6)
	game.Workspace.places.camm3.SurfaceGui.Enabled = true
	game.Workspace.places.cammm3.SurfaceGui.Enabled = true
	TweenService:Create(
		game.Lighting.Blur, 
		TweenInfo.new(0.2), 
		{Size = 0} 
	):Play() 


end)

edit: added the mousebutton1click function, devforum cut it out for some reason

#4

It stays in StarterGUI, but it gets copied to your PlayerGUI.
Does part of your code work?

#5

So how could I access it? Do I have to convert my server script to a local script to access it?

#7

That is weird, because it works

Basically at the start of my whole click button do the effects and things i want to do then disable and enable loop I used the exact same script, and it works, just at the second time of this whole loop it mysteriously doesn’t work

#8

Oh I just saw it, you cant use Scripts on the client.
Copy the code in a LocalScript

#9

I did convert it, but still, how can I access PlayerGUI? I have an assumption already but just making sure I don’t make another mistake

#10

Well you can use script.Parent.
This would select the TextButton that the script is in.

Also I just saw another mistake, But you can’t use SurfaceGUI in StarterGui.
It’s only for parts.

#11

I am a bit confused right now,

All previous topics of this same question link to one solution: Put the GUI in StarterGUI, set the GUI’s Adornee to the part, in studio if I do everything and set it to enabled, the GUI shows perfectly fine, and I meant accessing the GUI in a different script (in the workspace)

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#12

Yes buut you need to convert your SurfaceGUI to a ScreenGUI, or else it won’t show up.

#13

But then it wouldn’t display on the part anymore…

#14

And to acces the GUI from the workspace, well… You can’t.
You’ll have to use RemoteEvents that tells the client where to put GUIs.

#15

Oh I’m sorry I thought it was in StarterGui please ignore it.

#16

No, it is in StarterGUI, that’s the whole thing, I explained it in this comment

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#17

Oh okay!
I was confused.

Could you please explain what you want to do, but what does work again please? I’m really sorry!

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#18

Can’t you do something like in a local script that you get the localplayer, get the playergui and just access it from there? Or is the playergui stored somewhere where a local script can’t access it

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#19

Yes, you can with the Players service. I avoided it as it would be clunky.

But you can use script.Parent.Parent.Parent instead to access the SurfaceGUI.

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#20

My goal as explained in the start is to:

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#21

No, I want it to be accessed from a different script which is not the parent of the GUI

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