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How would I make a function fire after another function has been fired?

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6 years ago

I need to know this because I'm trying to make an ax that works by mouse1down and onTouched but I don't know how to do that. Heres the current script (from toolbox)

01wait(1)
02------------------------
03axelvl = 1
04treeMoney = 25
05resettime = 2
06------------------------
07 
08Tool = script.Parent
09ting = 0 --this is my debounce
10 
11function hit()
12    print("hitting")
13    local anim = Instance.new("StringValue")
14    anim.Name = "toolanim"
15    anim.Value = "Slash"
16    anim.Parent = Tool
17end
18 
19function onActivated() 
20    if not Tool.Enabled then
21        return
22    end
23 
24    Tool.Enabled = false
25    hit()
26    Tool.Enabled = true
27 
28end
29 
30function onTouched(hitt)
31--  print("touched something")
32    if ting == 0 then
33    ting = 1
34    if hitt.Parent.Name == "Tree" then
35--  print("touched tree")
36    user = game.Players:findFirstChild(Tool.Parent.Name) --find the player that carries the axe for later moneygiving
37 
38    hitt.Parent.hit.Value = hitt.Parent.hit.Value - axelvl --deal damage to the tree 
39 
40    if hitt.Parent.hit.Value < 1 and hitt.Parent.Timber.Value == 0 then --check if the tree is felled
41        user.leaderstats.Money.Value = user.leaderstats.Money.Value + treeMoney --add money to the dude with the axe
42        hitt.Parent.Timber.Value = 1 --this declares the tree "felled" and makes sure nobody else can get money from it
43        wait(resettime)
44    else
45        wait(1)
46    end
47    end
48    ting = 0
49    end
50end
51 
52Tool.Activated:connect(onActivated)
53connection = Tool.Handle.Touched:connect(onTouched)
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So how would I make function ontouched(hitt) only fire when a mouse1down function is fired?

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Aniline_Purple 266

6 years ago

What you could do is only listen to the event in the Mouse1Down function, and disconnect it after some cooldown. You could do this by creating a connection through :Connect(), and using :Disconnect() on the connection after.

Like so:

01function onMouse1Down()
02    -- connect to touched event
03    local touchConnection = Tool.Handle.Touched:connect(onTouched)
04 
05    wait(cooldown)
06 
07    -- disconnect
08    touchConnection:Disconnect()
09end
10-- connect your Mouse1Down here

NOTE: the connection to touched shouldn't happen anywhere else in the code, it should only happen in onMouse1Down.

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