How do i show a button only if a player is in a specific Team?
so as i said in the title i want to make a button that only shows if the player is in a specific team and ive already tried this:
while true do
local Teams = game:WaitForChild("Teams")
wait(0.01)
if script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Team.Name == "Administrative Department" or "Ethics Committee" then
script.Parent.Visible = true
else
script.Parent.Visible = false
end
end
the structure of it is
StarterGUI
CodeUI(ScreenGUI)
TextButton
UICorner
WhileLoop(script Obove)
Press(script Below)
UI(Frame)
And this is the Press Script
script.Parent.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
if script.Parent.UI.Visible == false then
script.Parent.UI.Visible = true
script.Parent.Text = "Close Alarm Code UI"
else
script.Parent.UI.Visible = false
script.Parent.Text = "Alarm Code UI"
end
end)
1 answer
Most programming languages don't support English grammar, so this isn't doing quite what you expect:
if script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Team.Name == "Administrative Department" or "Ethics Committee" then
Lua interprets the first half as you intended, but the 2nd half it interprets similar to "If the expression "Ethics Committee" is not false/nil, the whole expression can be true". You'll need to spell out what you want. To save typing, we can save the Team object to a variable before using it:
local Teams = game:GetService("Teams") -- Only need to do this once; use GetService not WaitForChild on things like Teams/Players/etc
local teamLabel = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("Team")
while true do
wait() -- No need to specify 0.01 as wait will always wait for around 0.03 anyway
if teamLabel.Name == "Administrative Department" or teamLabel.Name == "Ethics Committee" then
script.Parent.Visible = true
else
script.Parent.Visible = false
end
end
Except I'm going to assume that you meant to use .Text not .Name? In either case, we can rewrite that further to only act when the property changes:
local teamLabel = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("Team")
local function update()
script.Parent.Visible = teamLabel.Text == "Administrative Department" or teamLabel.Text == "Ethics Committee"
end
teamLabel:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Text"):Connect(update)
update()