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how do I make it so you have to told the Key for a certain period of time?

Asked Jan 4, 2020232 views2 answers

I'm trying to make it so the user has to hold the key down 3 seconds but i end up breaking the script everytime i try to

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Mouse = Player:GetMouse()
local Replicated = script.Parent
local event = Replicated:WaitForChild("Use")
local deactivate = Replicated:WaitForChild("Not")
local using = false
local cooldown = false
mouse = Player:GetMouse()

holding = false

mouse.KeyDown:connect(function(key)
if key == 'm' then
	if holding == false then

holding = true
event:FireServer()
	  else
		holding = false
		deactivate:FireServer()
end
end

end)

AnonymousJan 4, 2020

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Hello, BookOfTragedy!

The script below should help you out. This script is just like yours but I've changed some stuff. Everything that is changed has been explained in the script.

local PlayerService = game:GetService("Players")
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService") -- Using UserInputService instead of mouse.

local Client = PlayerService.LocalPlayer

local Key = "M" -- The ke the person has to hold

local Holding = false -- Detects when the key is being held
local ExpectedHold = 3 -- How long you want the player to be hold the key for
local HoldingTime = 0 -- The amount of seconds they holded for

local Event = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Use")

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(Input, GPE)
	if not GPE then
		if Input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode[Key] then -- When they start to press the key this runs
			if not Holding then -- if they arent already holding then it continues
				Holding = true -- Makes holding true/script now knows they're holding the key
				
				while Holding do wait(1) -- Basically while holding == true the code after this will run every second
					if HoldingTime < ExpectedHold then
						HoldingTime = HoldingTime + 1 -- This adds to how long they holder the key for
					end
				end
			end
		end
	end
end)


UserInputService.InputEnded:Connect(function(Input, GPE) -- runs when they stop holding a key
	if not GPE then
		if Input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode[Key] then
			if HoldingTime >= ExpectedHold then -- if they holding the key for the right amount of time
				Event:FireServer() -- fires the remote if they did
			else
				print(Client.Name..' holded '..Key..' for '..HoldingTime..' second(s).')
				HoldingTime = 0 -- sets the time back to 0
			end
		end
	end
end)

AnonymousJan 4, 2020Permalink

I would recommend using UIS over KeyDown as KeyDown is deprecated. UIS Docs. For this problem, I would use the InputBegan event and IsKeyDown function. You would use InputBegan to change the holding variable to true if the key m is pressed and you would use IsKeyDown to see if m has ever been let go before the 3 seconds is up. (You can find all of this in the UIS Docs). Reply to this if you have more questions.

AnonymousJan 4, 2020Permalink

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