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PlayerGui not indexable from a HopperBin?

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11 years ago

I finished writing a headache piece of code, only the find out that line 1 didn't work. I have tried to wrap my head around why it won't work, and the only logical explination I came up with is that PlayerGui can't be indexed from a HopperBin (or the Backpack). Here's the problem code, changed a bit from it's previous version.

`1`	`print` `(script.Parent.Parent.Parent:FindFirstChild("PlayerGui").Name)`

The script's is heirarchy is as so: game.Players.Player1.Backpack.Tool(HopperBin, not a Tool).Script

It's as if PlayerGui doesn't exist...

Here's all of the code, if it helps.

01local menu = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.PlayerGui.tahcune
02local selected = menu.selected
03local plr = script.Parent.Parent.Parent
04 
05function onObjectSelected(mouse)
06    local t = Instance.new("Part")
07    t.Anchored = true
08    t.FormFactor = 2
09    t.BottomSurface = "Smooth"
10    t.TopSurface = "Smooth"
11    t.BrickColor = BrickColor.new(Color3.new(0, 0, 0))
12    t.Transparency = 0.65
13    t.Position = mouse.Hit.p
14    t.Size = Vector3.new(selected.Value.info.hoverSize.Value.X, selected.Value.info.hoverSize.Value.Y / 2, selected.Value.info.hoverSize.Value.Z)
15    t.Parent = game.Workspace
16    repeat updatePos(mouse, t) until fired == true
17    onPurchase(t)
18    t:Destroy()
19end
20 
21function updatePos(mouse, object)
22    t.Position = Vector3.new(math.ceil(mouse.Hit.X), object.Size.Y / 2, math.ceil(mouse.Hit.Z))
23    wait()
24end
25 
26function onPurchase(t)
27    local objects = game.ServerStorage:GetChildren()
28    for i = 1, #objects do
29        if objects[i].Name == selected.Value.Name then
30            local a = objects[i]:Clone()
31            a.Parent = game.Workspace:findFirstChild(plr.Name.."_kit")
32            a:MoveTo(t.Position.X, t.Position.Y / 2, t.Position.Z)
33            a.Name = "base"
34 
35            local b = Instance.new("BoolValue", a.Parent.owned)
36            b.Name = "base"
37            b.Value = true
38 
39            game.ServerStorage:FindFirstChild(plr.Name.."_stats").level = game.ServerStorage:FindFirstChild(plr.Name.."_stats").level + 1
40        end
41    end
42end
43 
44 
45script.Parent.Selected:connect(function(mouse)
46    repeat wait() until menu.selected ~= nil
47    onObjectSelected(mouse) 
48end)
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Answered by

Dummiez 360

11 years ago

Since you're running this from a HopperBin, and accepts LocalScripts as the only way to execute, you could rather parenting getting LocalPlayer, also I don't understand why you are naming PlayerGui when you are already getting the name?

Getting your player:

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer

Finding the PlayerGui:

print(plr.PlayerGui.Name)

EDIT: I think it works anyways.. lol

I see what you're getting at, but I need to be able to access ServerStorage with the script, and LocalScripts can't cheweydog 20 — 11y

How can your code access ServerStorage then? Running ServerScripts can't work on HopperBin as it was disabled because of exploits. Dummiez 360 — 11y

Crud. I forgot to test this in a live game. Thanks, I'll rewrite to work from a tool! cheweydog 20 — 11y

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