So I wanted to use GetChildren to just define all the buttons under this GUI and basicly just print the Name of the button you clicked so like,
buttons = script.Parent:GetChildren() buttons.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() print(buttons.Name) end)
But naturally this didn't work so I tried a different method and I don't know what the heck happend but this is all more complicated then it should be, can anyone recommend a better method?
local children = script.Parent:GetChildren() local buttons = {} for i, child in ipairs(children) do if child.ClassName == "TextButton" then print(child.Name .. " is child number " .. i) table.insert(buttons, child.Name) end end i = 0 i = i + 1 a = i script.Parent:FindFirstChild(buttons[i]).MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() print(buttons[a]) end) i = i + 1 b = i script.Parent:FindFirstChild(buttons[i]).MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() print(buttons[b]) end) i = i + 1 c = i script.Parent:FindFirstChild(buttons[i]).MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() print(buttons[c]) end) i = i + 1 d = i script.Parent:FindFirstChild(buttons[i]).MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() print(buttons[d]) end) i = i + 1 e = i script.Parent:FindFirstChild(buttons[i]).MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() print(buttons[e]) end) i = i + 1 f = i script.Parent:FindFirstChild(buttons[i]).MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() print(buttons[f]) end) i = i + 1 g = i script.Parent:FindFirstChild(buttons[i]).MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() print(buttons[g]) end) i = i + 1 h = i script.Parent:FindFirstChild(buttons[i]).MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() print(buttons[h]) end) i = i + 1 j = i script.Parent:FindFirstChild(buttons[i]).MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() print(buttons[j]) end) i = i + 1 k = i script.Parent:FindFirstChild(buttons[i]).MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() print(buttons[k]) end) i = i + 1 l = i script.Parent:FindFirstChild(buttons[i]).MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() print(buttons[l]) end) i = i + 1 m = i script.Parent:FindFirstChild(buttons[i]).MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() print(buttons[m]) end) i = i + 1 n = i script.Parent:FindFirstChild(buttons[i]).MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() print(buttons[n]) end) i = i + 1 o = i script.Parent:FindFirstChild(buttons[i]).MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() print(buttons[o]) end) i = i + 1 p = i script.Parent:FindFirstChild(buttons[i]).MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() print(buttons[p]) end)
Loop through all button
local buttonholder = script.Parent.Holder for i,v in pairs(buttonholder:GetChildren()) do v.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() end) end