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How to use mouse.Target as string?
Hello, devs!
I was doing tool that changes gui text when you will click at any object, but while trying to change the gui text with the mouse.Target, it said that you can't use mouse.Target, you need to use string. Can someone please explain me how to make that work?
CODE:
script.Parent.Equipped:Connect(function(mouse)
game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.Frame.Visible = true
mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
print(mouse.Target)
game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"):FindFirstChild("ScreenGui"):FindFirstChild("Frame"):FindFirstChild("TextLabel").Text = mouse.Target
end)
end)
script.Parent.Unequipped:Connect(function()
game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.Frame.Visible = false
end)
ERRORS:
Players.ErktikyYT.Backpack.Tool.LocalScript:2: invalid argument #3 (string expected, got Instance)
Line 5
So at the end of the line 5. This is my problem.
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Did you try using mouse.Target.Name? PoWerofThEePg 43 — 3y
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It worked, but when I press on sky (nil) then it shows error on output. ErktikyYT 89 — 3y
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im not sure what youre trying to do but, mouse.target is the object the cursor is on. mouse.Hit is a cframe that has the mouse's position. also, from your comment you were getting an error because there was no object. this is how i personally would change it
if mouse.Target ~= nil then -- ~= means not equal
print("")
end
-- this is a seperate script for detecting if there is an object or not
script.Parent.Equipped:Connect(function(mouse)
game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.Frame.Visible = true
mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
print(mouse.Target) -- print always converts to string
game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"):FindFirstChild("ScreenGui"):FindFirstChild("Frame"):FindFirstChild("TextLabel").Text = tostring(mouse.Target) -- tostring makes it a string but in this case would be equivalent to it's name
end)
end)
script.Parent.Unequipped:Connect(function()
game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.Frame.Visible = false
end)