I want to change the name of the part the player specifies in a textbox.
Say the user input tells me the part is at:
game.Workspace.Part
What I want to do is add .Name at the end.
I've tried:
script.Parent.Text.Name --didn't work, like I thought.
ab = script.Parent.Text.. '.Name' --didn't work, however printing it resulted in the right path.
I'm not sure exactly what to do or how to do this.
Actually, if the player tells you its game.Workspace.Part, then that's exactly what it is - game.Workspace.Part.Name that you want to set. Correct?
Yep, how would I add ".Name" to the end?
You can set many properties with an equal sign. Just format it like this:
game.Workspace.Part.Name = "hi"
Of course, there are many read-only properties, but the name is modifiable.
Doesn't seem like people are getting my point. The player enters into the textbox "game.Workspace.Part", using print(script.Parent.Text) will display "game.Workspace.Part", how can I take the input from the user as a path and add to it? Could I use loadstrings for this?
So, is (script.Parent.Text=script.Parent.Text ..".Name") what you are looking for?
No, sorry was not clear. Not sure of a way to explain it where you guys can understand, consider it resolved if you want.
I think it is Ok to attempt to see if we can solve your problem. I think want you want is not to change the text, but to make it a separate string for later use, correct?
I remember you from my other post a few years ago, just now, had to read the question 3 times to get what you were saying, I'm assuming you want either the full name, or the string path or the object.
local str = loadstring('return '..script.Parent.Text..".Name")()
this will run the stuff in loadstring and return will give "str" the value of the loadstring
which means if script.Parent.Text was "workspace.Part" and I added .Name, it will be workspace.Part.Name, when returned str will be workspace.Part.Name.
local str = loadstring('return '..script.Parent.Text..":GetFullName()")
Which returns the full name.
local str = loadstring('return workspace:FindFirstChild('..script.Parent.Text..")")
In which the returned value is the object
I know i'm 4 years late but this is my way of even slightly, repaying you for answering my question
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Are you new to scripting?