Customclickdetector - A custom implementation of roblox's click detectors

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customclickdetector

a custom implementation of roblox's click detectors
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Why?

The classic question. So through out all these years, Roblox had this instance called Click Detectors, we all know it. But, there were lots of issues with them; So I created this module. It uses raycasts for the customclickdetectors.

Demos

customclickdetector_buttonTest

Examples

Hello world.

local myClickDetector = customClickDetector.new({
    instance = workspace.Part
})
myClickDetector.mouseDown:Connect(function()
   print("Hello world")
end) -- event which when mouse is clicked, the function fires
customClickDetector.startLoop() -- starts the loop which handles the click detectors

Feedback appreciated.

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#2

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Might be nice to have a bit more information xD
Interesting though! Roblox’s Click Detectors are pretty infamously bad.

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#3

Could you explain what problems click detectors have and how your implementation is better?

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#4

Fine, I guess you kinda convinced me to use this over the default one. However, I think i’ll be sticking to ProximityPrompts though. Cool resource.

#5

I forgor all of them :skull: my draft always threw a 403 error.

anyway, the most notable one is that its veryy hard to trigger roblox click detector while moving.

edit: ok i remembered one:
Not much events like mouseup.

#6

I would but I didn’t know what to put there.

Ill update it later.

#7

is there an option to change the player’s mouse icon when hovering? like default clickdetectors?

#8

Yes but its not documented yet. In the class add a hoverIcon key with the decal id.
note you can also add an unhoverIcon key to put the unhover icon decal id.

i just noticed the documentation has very little info.

But for now, all the table arguments are this:

instance = initialProps.instance,
            maxDistance = initialProps.maxDistance or 32,
            hoverIcon = initialProps.hoverIcon or "",
            unhoverIcon = initialProps.unhoverIcon or ""

So for a custom hover icon example, do this:

local myClickDetector = customClickDetector.new({
    instance = workspace.Part,
    hoverIcon = "rbxassetid://id"
})
myClickDetector.mouseDown:Connect(function()
   print("Hello world")
end) -- event which when mouse is clicked, the function fires
customClickDetector.startLoop() -- starts the loop which handles the click detectors
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#9

Hey, I can’t set up this module with wally, its this error

!EDIT, I figured it out.

#10

You might want to drop the solution for any other users that encounter the same issue, unless you just did a dumb thing

#11

Pretty cool, though I’d suggest you add more documentation for the less savy

#12

Also, there’s some functionality problems where if your mouse leaves during a mouseDown, mouseUp never gets triggered.

This can be fixed if you adjust your code but just thought I’d let everyone know

#13

Oops, will fix when I can