How to know if the player clicked or clicked and held the button?

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The title says it all, with MouseButtonClick or UserInputService etc

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You could use MouseButton1Down ans MouseButton1Up together, or user UserInputService's InputBegan and InputEnded.

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t.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
	t.Text = 'down Click'
	t.MouseButton1Up:Connect(function()
		t.Text = 'up Click'
	end)
end)

Something will happen if he holds it down, if he clicks it will be something else, here both happens, I need a single function that returns ‘hold’ or ‘click’

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I’m on mobile right now so I can’t test this, but this is what I came up with:

t.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
	t.Text = 'down Click'
		
	-- Create a RunService event connection
	local elapsedTime = 0
    local connection = game:GetService("RunService").Stepped:Connect(function(_, delta)
		elapsedTime += delta -- Add the time since the last frame to the elaspedTime variable
	end)
		
	t.MouseButton1Up:Wait() -- Wait for the event to fire
	connection:Disconnect() -- Disconnect the event
	t.Text = 'up Click'
		
	if elaspedTime < 1 then
		-- An example condition for checking if the user held down the button
		-- 1 would be how much time that must be surpassed in order to say that the user held the button down
		-- For this statement, the user just clicked the button
	end
end)

If 1 is too long, just mess around with the value until it fits.

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