How do I detect if a player has pressed a certain key for more than 1 second?

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#1

Like I want to check if a player was holding left shift for more than 1 second, thus enabling auto-sprint

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#2

Use proximity prompt make it transparent change the settings and put it in the player.

#3

are there any alternatives to proximity prompt?

#4

To do this you have two choices, you can either use:

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/ContextActionService

or

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/UserInputService

=> Check the button pressed => if shift => set walkspeed.

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/event/UserInputService/InputBegan
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/function/ContextActionService/BindAction

#5

You could use DevBeat’s way but that wouldn’t count the time.

#6

You can count the time yourself by using the time from when the input started and a loop. os.clock() can get you the current time, and you can constantly check if the current os.clock time - the start time is greater than 1

#7

UserInputService should do the job, there was another article talking about

tick()

Visible Script Isn't Working - #8 by Minecrablox which comes in handy for time… But first here it is: [Moderate success]

local KeyPressed = Enum.KeyCode.LeftShift
local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")
if UIS.KeyboardEnabled then
    function InputBegan()
        if UIS:IsKeyDown(KeyPressed) then
            wait(.5)
            if UIS:IsKeyDown(KeyPressed) then
               wait(.5)
               if UIS:IsKeyDown(KeyPressed) then
                  -- code here
               end
            end
        end
    end
    UIS.InputBegan:Connect(InputBegan)
end
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#8

Simply detect when stop pressing the key, and the make a value false, the value stop a while whit the condition of the value is true.

#9

Use UIS.InputBegan and UIS.InputEnded to do this like this:

local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local key = Enum.KeyCode.LeftShift
local timer
local alrAct = false
UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gp)
        if gp return end
        if input.KeyCode == key and not alrAct then
           timer = os.clock()
           wait(1)
           if UIS:IsKeyDown(key) then
           -- keep sprint
              alrAct = true
           end
        end
end)

UIS.InputEnded:Connect(function(input, gp)
       if gp then return end
       if input.KeyCode == key then
          if (os.clock() - timer) >= 1 and not alrAct then
                --keep sprint
                alrAct = true
          end
       end
end)

By the way, you will need another code to deactivate alrAct.