[DERMA] How do I connect one button to two frames?

Garry's Mod coding
#1

So, I started to mess with derma yesterday, and it was really interesting. Until I came into to a problem. I made two frames, but I had no clue how I could make them both close at the same time. So I started to ask a few friends and eventually post it in the Garry’s Mod Discussions, but I recieved no answer that actually worked. So now I’m here asking for help.
This is the code I currently have, there are no lua errors or anything.


local Frame = vgui.Create( "DFrame" )
Frame:SetSize(200,1200)
Frame:SetTitle( "Wanker" )
Frame:SetPos(0,0)
Frame:SetVisible( true )
Frame:SetDraggable( false )
Frame:ShowCloseButton( true )
Frame:MakePopup()
Frame.Paint = function(self,w,h)
    draw.RoundedBox(0,0,0,w,h, Color(32,36,47))
end

local close = vgui.Create("DButton", Frame)
close:SetSize(100,30)
close:SetPos(50,50)
close:SetText("Close")
close:SetTextColor(Color( 255,255,255))
close.Paint = function(self,w,h)
    draw.RoundedBox(0,0,0,w,h, Color(41,128,185,250))
	end

close.DoClick = function ()
    close:Remove()
    Frame:Remove()
	gui.EnableScreenClicker(false)
	
	net.Start("CS_MenuClosed")
    net.SendToServer()
end

local Frame = vgui.Create("DFrame")
Frame:SetSize(1137,1200)
Frame:SetPos(783,0)
Frame:SetTitle ("Test")
Frame:SetVisible(true)
Frame:SetDraggable(false)
Frame:ShowCloseButton(true)
Frame:MakePopup()
Frame.Paint = function(self,w,h)
    draw.RoundedBox(0,0,0,w,h, Color(32,36,47))
end

And this is what the it looks like:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/270599410806487365/C4103A03D8ED647186BEE7EB1F95C4A4F0A0DAE0/

#2

Try moving the click.DoClick section to the bottom and possibly give the second Frame a different variable name

#3

Yeah, the problem is you created two frames with the same variable name, meaning you overwrite it to close the old frame rather than the new one

#4

Give both panels global variables, and do GlobalVar1:Remove() when the button is pressed for both panels.

#5

What do you mean with different variable name? Should I change the DFrame to something else? And if yes, then what?

#6 


local var1 = ...
local var2 = ...
#7 

local Frame = vgui.Create( "DFrame" )
local var1 = ("Doge")
Frame:SetSize(200,1200)
Frame:SetTitle( "Wanker" )
Frame:SetPos(0,0)
Frame:SetVisible( true )
Frame:SetDraggable( false )
Frame:ShowCloseButton( true )
Frame:MakePopup()
Frame.Paint = function(self,w,h)
    draw.RoundedBox(0,0,0,w,h, Color(32,36,47))
end

local Frame = vgui.Create("DFrame")
local var2 = ("Shiba")
Frame:SetSize(1137,1200)
Frame:SetPos(783,0)
Frame:SetTitle ("Test")
Frame:SetVisible(true)
Frame:SetDraggable(false)
Frame:ShowCloseButton(true)
Frame:MakePopup()
Frame.Paint = function(self,w,h)
    draw.RoundedBox(0,0,0,w,h, Color(32,36,47))
end

local close = vgui.Create("DButton", Frame)
close:SetSize(100,30)
close:SetPos(50,50)
close:SetText("Close")
close:SetTextColor(Color( 255,255,255))
close.Paint = function(self,w,h)
    draw.RoundedBox(0,0,0,w,h, Color(41,128,185,250))
	end

close.DoClick = function ()
    close:Remove()
    Frame:Remove()
	gui.EnableScreenClicker(false)
	
	net.Start("CS_MenuClosed")
    net.SendToServer()
end

I did this, but nothing is changed. You have to be a little more specific because I just started :c But thanks anyway

#8

You never changed the variable. Look:



local Frame = vgui.Create( "DFrame" )

-- then you did this later

local Frame = vgui.Create("DFrame")

Just change one of those Frame variables to be a different name

[editline]4th August 2016[/editline]



local Frame = vgui.Create( "DFrame" )
Frame:SetSize(200,1200)
Frame:SetTitle( "Wanker" )
Frame:SetPos(0,0)
Frame:SetVisible( true )
Frame:SetDraggable( false )
Frame:ShowCloseButton( true )
Frame:MakePopup()
Frame.Paint = function(self,w,h)
    draw.RoundedBox(0,0,0,w,h, Color(32,36,47))
end

local OTHER_FRAME = vgui.Create("DFrame")
OTHER_FRAME:SetSize(1137,1200)
OTHER_FRAME:SetPos(783,0)
OTHER_FRAME:SetTitle ("Test")
OTHER_FRAME:SetVisible(true)
OTHER_FRAME:SetDraggable(false)
OTHER_FRAME:ShowCloseButton(true)
OTHER_FRAME:MakePopup()
OTHER_FRAME.Paint = function(self,w,h)
    draw.RoundedBox(0,0,0,w,h, Color(32,36,47))
end

local close = vgui.Create("DButton", Frame)
close:SetSize(100,30)
close:SetPos(50,50)
close:SetText("Close")
close:SetTextColor(Color( 255,255,255))
close.Paint = function(self,w,h)
    draw.RoundedBox(0,0,0,w,h, Color(41,128,185,250))
	end

close.DoClick = function()
    close:Remove()
    OTHER_FRAME:Remove()
	gui.EnableScreenClicker(false)
	
	net.Start("CS_MenuClosed")
    net.SendToServer()
end

[editline]4th August 2016[/editline]

Variables are the simplest thing possible to know in Lua. If you don’t understand them, it’s probably not a good idea to even be touching derma yet.

[editline]4th August 2016[/editline]

What you were doing before was literally equivalent to this:



local var1 = 1

local var1 = 2

print( var1 ) -- This will obviously equal 2 because you literally just set it to 2 mate

-- Why do you expect it to still equal 1 if you set it to be something else?
#9

Thanks man. Though you forgot to add


Frame:Remove()

:c
But thanks so much.