There's gotta be a better way to shorten this. I'm trying to make a function where it detects when one of its child's ImageButtons have been clicked, and then identifies the button that was clicked. It is way easier than to make a new function for every single button. How should I do this? Is there a certain function or event to do so?
Thanks, hopefully I explained this correctly.
yes, there is.
you'll want to use a for loop and :GetChildren() to identify all the image buttons.
local frameWithImageButtons = script.Parent --where are all the image buttons located?
local imageButtons = frameWithImageButtons:GetChildren()
for i=1, #imageButtons do --loop through all the buttons
--Connect to the buttons click event
local imageButton = imageButtons[i] --get the image button in the array
imageButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
--[[imageButton is a local variable unique in the scope of one iteration of the for loop,
so it will connect to each individual button.]]
print(imageButton.Name..' was clicked.')
end)
end
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Why not use a Generic-For instead of Numeric in this case?
numeric is slightly faster
Wow. The difference is so small it's not even worth it. Use generic loops.
it literally doesn't matter