Textbox to player issue

[lanenorth]

I have been trying to make it so you type a player into a textbox and then tp to them but my issue is that it thinks the person in the textbox is the player inputting it.

I am connecting a localscript to a script and transferring (player, script.parent.text)

I have looked at these:

How to get a player from a Textbox and kill them

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Detect player from textbox

Basically, I have a GUI with a textbox, and in the textbox, you write the player’s name and then all the functions work on that specified player. Currently I have: for i,player in pairs(Players:GetChildren()) do ... end But it’s of course wrong, and I don’t know how to make it detect the player that was written in the TextBox

How to grab text input from a TextBox?

OK, this might seem like a silly question, but I have no idea of how to go about getting the player’s text input from a TextBox. How does one go about this?

The first one almost worked but as you saw above it had that problem.

This was my localscript:

local r = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("RemoteEvents"):WaitForChild("RSpecial"):WaitForChild("TattooYouGUI")

script.Parent.FocusLost:Connect(function()
	local findplayer = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(script.Parent.Text)
	local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
	local character = player.Character
	if not findplayer then return end
	if findplayer:FindFirstChild("Stand") then
		if findplayer.Stand.Value == "Tattoo You" then
			print("ok!")
			r:FireServer(player, script.Parent.Text)
		else
			print("non :rage:")
		end
	end
end)

This was my serverscript

local r = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("RemoteEvents"):WaitForChild("RSpecial"):WaitForChild("TattooYouGUI")

r.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, Text)
	if player.Name ~= script.Parent.Parent.Name then return end

	local gui = player.PlayerGui.RSpecialsRequiringGUI.TattooYou.Frame
	local findplayer = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(tostring(Text))
	print(findplayer)
	local character = player.Character
	task.wait(1)
	character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(findplayer.PrimaryPart.CFrame * CFrame.new(0, 0, -1))
end)

[ahandohs5]

by default, the first variable is always the player who fired the event.

r:FireServer(script.Parent.Text)

so no need to add the player here /\ /\

Sorry for the edits I kinda just skimmed through the post

[lanenorth]

The problem wasn’t the player1 but it is trying to find player2 in the Textbox which still thinks its the player1 instead of player2

[v_vwasted (wasted)]

What he’s saying is that, by default, when a localscript runs FireServer() on a RemoteEvent, the first value received on the OnServerEvent is the LocalPlayer instance.

So when you fire

r:FireServer(player, script.Parent.Text)

the server is receiving

(player, player, script.Parent.Text)

meaning that what the server receives is two of the same instance for both “player” and “Text”

[lanenorth]

Ohhh! That fixes it thank you! I still will be putting the original post as solved though. Thank you for explaining it!

[ahandohs5]

yeah sorry for not explaining it too well lol, glad it worked though