It sounds confusing I know, but read this to understand. I want to see that if a player holds down a key using the key: down event for 5 seconds, I want a action to happen. Is this even possible? And if so can you point me to the right direction?
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Is it possible to check if a player is holding down a key? (SOLVED)
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In a local script:
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local mouse = player:GetMouse()
local down = {}
mouse.KeyDown:connect(function(key)
--'tag' the time the key was pressed, set pressing to true
down[key:lower()] = {pressing = true, tag = tick()}
end)
mouse.KeyUp:connect(function(key)
--set pressing to false
down[key:lower()] = {pressing = false, tag = 0}
end)
game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:connect(function()
--loop through the keys
for key, array in pairs(down) do
--if the key is being pressed
if array.pressing then
print("\"" .. key .. "\" has been held for " .. tick() - array.tag .. " seconds.")
if tick() - array.tag > 5 then
print("ALERT: \"" .. key .. "\" has been held for more than 5 seconds!")
end
end
end
end)
Not very flexible and it can't tell if you let go and then re-held the key within the 5 seconds but it works...
local Key=nil
function KeyDown(K)
Key=K
wait(5)
if Key then
print(Key.." was held for 5 seconds")
end
end
function KeyUp()
Key=nil
end
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Awesome thank you so much!
I don't even think this would work. There aren't any events attached to the functions. Use mine, instead.