Can someone help with this Search GUI?
I was experimenting with Search GUI's and came up with this, now I was wondering if someone can tell me what I am doing wrong with it as to why it's only working if I type the full text? I want it to be visible if I type stuff like C and there's a frame named Cow.
Here's what I tried:
local frame = script.Parent.Parent.ScrollingFrame
script.Parent.Changed:connect(function()
for _,v in pairs(frame:GetChildren()) do
if string.find(script.Parent.Text,v.Name) then
v.Visible = true
else
v.Visible = false
end
end
end)
How would I make it work if I typed stuff like "C"?
Any help appreciated.
Sorry I can't explain any better.
2 answers
I noticed that my old answer was deleted for some reason. Never mind, I will take from Perci1's answer. I hadn't considered using string.match() for a search script before.
This is the hierarchy used in this script:
- ScreenGui
- Frame
- Frame (Called "Cow")
- Script
- TextBox (for searching)
- TextButton ('search' button)
- Frame
Script:
local searchText = "Search for your object here" -- text that you want your search box to display
local p =script.Parent
local f = p.Frame
local children = f:GetChildren()
local text = p.Textbox
local button = p.TextButton
cow.Visible = false
text.Text = searchText
function search(txt)
if txt ~= " " and txt ~= "" and txt ~= searchText then -- checks that the search is valid
for _,v in pairs (children) do
local name = v.Name:lower()
text = txt:lower()
local str = name:match(txt)
if str then
v.Visible = true
end
end
else
text.Text = "Invalid search"
end
end
button.MouseButton1Down:connect(search(text.Text) -- fires when clicked
This should work. There was no rush this time, but I don't have access to Studio right now.
You can use string.match instead of string.find. It will return the first match found, or nil if there isn't a match.
local str = "Cow"
print( str:match("C") ) -->C
print( str:match("Hi") ) -->nil
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