Can you make a custom 'Event' function on roblox?

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Sorry for the late response.

Basics of signal 
-- a module script can hold these, so every script can have access to it
local signal = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.Signal) -- change this where your signal module is

local myEvents = {}

myEvents.myCustomEvent = signal.new()

return myEvents

-- then a different module can do
local myEventsModule = require(nil) -- replace this where the module containing all of the signals are
myEventsModule.myCustomEvent:Fire("The chosen number is 5")

-- another script can listen to this custom event now
local myEventsModule = require(nil) -- replace this where the module containing all of the signals are
myEventsModule.myCustomEvent:Connect(function(text)
	warn(text)
end)
Disconnect from signals

You can also disconnect from signals

local myConnection = myEventsModule.myCustomEvent:Connect(function(arguments)
     print("Hi!")
end)
myConnection:Disconnect()

-- disconnects from every single connection that other scripts made
myConnection:DisconnectAll()
  • Then there is deferred fire, what is basically fire, but uses task.defer internally
  • Then signal:Wait(), that makes the thread yield (the script that called this function), until the signal gets fired, and returns the arguments from the fire method.
  • And finally destroy, that as the name suggests, destroys the class.

I’m 99% sure, that I did not miss out anything. Hope this helped!

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