I have a custom mouse in my game, without using the mouse.Icon, and I want the mouse color to change when the player hovers over a button, but it seems excessive to put a script in every button. What's an efficient way to do this?
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How to detect if player's mouse is over a button?
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You can use the :GetGuiObjectsAtPosition() method of PlayerGui. If we apply this in conjunction with the .Move signal of Mouse, we can perpetually track the X & Y position of the Cursor on-screen. By feeding these two properties into our method of PlayerGui, we can find what GuiObjects the Cursor is currently hovering over.
Since :GetGuiObjectsAtPosition() returns an array, we use a pairs loop to iterate through each Instance. and filter for a GuiButton.
local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local PlayerGui = Player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
local Cursor = Player:GetMouse()
local function ChangeCursorOverGui()
local X,Y = Cursor.X, Cursor.Y
local GuiObjects = PlayerGui:GetGuiObjectsAtPosition(X,Y)
for _,Button in pairs(GuiObjects) do
if (Button:IsA("GuiButton")) then
--// Change Cursor
return end
end
--// Reset Cursor
end
Cursor.Move:Connect(ChangeCursorOverGui)
Use this code within a LocalScript under StarterGui for appropriate placement. Some debouncing such as an IsAlreadyHovering boolean would increase efficiency, though isn't much of an issue to worry about.
#####I have tested this in Studio, and it works marvelously!
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I have a tween for the button for entering and exiting but the exiting tween won't play.
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Never mind, I've fixed it. Thank you for this god tier script.
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No problem!
Hello. You can use the MouseEnter event. Try this: (Assuming that the LocalScript is inside the button)
script.Parent.MouseEnter:Connect(function()
script.Parent.BackgroundColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(R, G, B)
end)
You may change "R, G, B" to the color of your choice. Please accept and upvote this answer if it helped.
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I said "It seems excessive to put a script in every button."
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My answer is the most efficient, the other answers will run it too many times causing memory problems.
That's false. In fact, it's the least efficient after reading it.