Roblox - How would I make a script that closes an open GUI when another is opened?

Question

I have two GUI's that are opened by a button each at the top of the screen, but I want to make it so that if someone tries to open the second GUI with the first open, it will close the first one before opening the second one.

Answer 1

You can do something like:

local frames = {
    [buttonA] = frameA;
    [buttonB] = frameB;
}
for button,frame in pairs(frames) do
    button.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
        if frame.Visible then
            -- If we try to reopen the current frame, close it
            frame.Visible = false
            return
        end
        -- Close all frames and make ours visible
        for k,v in pairs(frames) do
            -- 'v == frame' is true if it's our frame
            v.Visible = v == frame
        end
    end)
end

You should also check out the ROBLOX Wiki. It has some nice tutorials for Lua and stuff like opening/closing GUIs.

Answer 2

100% WORKS To make an opening and closing gui...Put this script: FIRSTGUINAME is your first gui, rename it and SECONDGUINAME is your second gui name so...

FIRSTGUINAME = script.Parent -- very important classifying info SECONDGUINAME = script.Parent.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild(YOUR SECOND GUI)

FIRSTGUINAME.MouseButton1Click:connect(function() SECONDGUINAME.Visible = not Visible

Thats all, now just copy paste this and your set

Answer 3

If you want to close a GUI if another one is open you can try this code:

GUI1 = (insert)
GUI2 = (insert)

GUI.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
if GUI1.Visible == false then
if GUI2.Visible == true then
GUI2.Visible = false
GUI1.Visible = true
else
GUI.Visible = true
end
else 
GUI1.Visible = false
end

If you are into the fancy stuff with the tweens, you might have to do that research yourself.