Hello, so I am trying to make something in a tool that tells you for how long the left mouse button was pressed. The only idea I could come up with was to make a loop that activates on the Mouse.Button1Down event and counts in 0.1 seconds. Then I would break that loop and just use the information that I got in the Mouse.Button1Up part. However I can't break the loop. So, any better ways of doing this or just a way to break the loop when the left button goes up?
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How could someone count for how long the tool was activated?
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xXTouchOfFrostXx answered your question.
local on = false
script.Parent.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
on = true
end)
script.Parent.MouseButton1Up:Connect(function()
on = false
end)
while wait() do
while on == true do
-- Count time
end
end
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What does that while wait() loop do? Is it necessary?
local timer = 0
local on = false
script.Parent.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
on = true
end)
script.Parent.MouseButton1Up:Connect(function()
on = false
end)
while on do--works while on is true
wait(0.1)--waits the amount of time
timer = timer + 0.1--adds on the wait value onto the timer
end
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If you are going to just paste my code and add something give dome sort of credit.
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He asked about way to do it he didn't request the whole script
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Also this code wouldn't work as on value won't update if it loop is not inside the other loop
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You could make a variable which is false by default, if mouse down variable goes true. Then you could use a loop which checks if the variable is true or false. If variable is true, count ticks. if it's false, stop loop.