How do I open a frame in my screengui from pressing a button on my surfacegui?

Question

I am coding a computer in roblox studio where on the monitor there is a login button and I want it where when a player hit that button a frame from my screengui. Ive been trying different codes but none worked. Mt recent script was a script. (I tried both local and normal script of this code both didnt work.) this script is in the button of the surfacegui.

local MyButton = script.Parent
local frame = game.StarterGui.ScreenGui.Frame

MyButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
    frame.Visible = true
end)

![the hierarchy of the StarterGui.] (https://i.sstatic.net/TMWlbZBJ.png)

I tried making the code where when button is pressed it would make frame visible.

Answer 1

You have 2 main problems here, 1 is the fact that you are listening to a GuiButton on the server and that you are changing StarterGui.

Instead of having a ServerScript listening to the events, you should use LocalScript, put the SurfaceGui in a ScreenGui and set the SurfaceGui's Adornee to the part.

From there you can listen to the event from a LocalScript. Something like the below.

local SurfaceGui = script.Parent.SurfaceGui
local ScreenPart = workspace.Screen
local frame = script.Parent.Frame

SurfaceGui.Adornee = ScreenPart
SurfaceGui.Button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
    frame.Visible = true
end)

(where the LocalScript is in the root of the ScreenGui)