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How to make a value decrease while mouse is holding?

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Hey, so I have been trying to make a script that decreases a variable's value while the mouse is holding button 1, the mouse section was easy, but I can't find a way to make the value decrease when mouse is holding, While true do keep decreasing and it won't stop, the minimum value is 0, can someone help?

local Mouse = player:GetMouse()
local value = 100 -- value supposed to reduce when mouse is being hold

function OnHoldRapid()
	
end
Mouse.Button1Down:Connect(OnHoldRapid)

function OnFree()

end
Mouse.Button1Up:Connect(OnFree)

Thank you!

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I'm not sure on this, so feel free to correct me on this anyone, but I believe Button1Down would only count 1 time on 1 "hold".

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hey robloxknight2000, Button1Down is supposed to trigger a functions that keep repeating, but i don't know how i would stop it, so i guessed i would need a Button1Up to stop it or something...

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Yeah, judging by the DevHub article on it, and their examples, it'll only fire once, meaning it won't be able to decrease to 0. https://developer.roblox.com/api-reference/event/Mouse/Button1Down

Anonymous#
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i have no idea on how to do this then...

Anonymous#
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You could try making a loop?

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how exactly?

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Hello, to achieve this, do the following:

mouse = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse() --Getting mouse
value = 100 --Setting a starting value

local Loopend = false --How we will stop the loop
mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function() --Detecting mouseDown
	repeat --continuously deducting from the value until Loopend = true
		value = value - 1
		wait(1)
	until
		Loopend = true
	Loopend = false
end)

mouse.Button1Up:Connect(function() --Detecting the button up and sending the signal to stop the loop
	Loopend = true 
end)
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Thank you! I didn't know it was that simple ;p

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Can i use until to set a minimum limit too like until value = 0 ?

Anonymous#
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Sure thing. I didnt make it, but this is as simple as you can get in terms of what you want!

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