How to know what tool has is the player equipping right now

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#1

to keep this in perspective,
how do you know when the player is equipping a tool and recognizing its name and properties etc. because there is only a property of the player which is the backpack that contains all the items in the backpack

Now i want to know how can you recognize the tool and its properties while they are equipping it without using an event called Equipped on the tool

#2

You could probably search in the player or character’s descendants and find if an instance is a “tool”, for example like this.

local player = game:GetService('Players').LocalPlayer

for i, v in pairs(player.Backpack:GetDescendants()) do
if v:IsA('Tool') then
--blah blah do anything about the tool
end
end

or this one but in a character model.

local player = game:GetService('Players').LocalPlayer
local char = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

for i, v in pairs(char:GetDescendants()) do
if v:IsA('Tool') then
--whatever blah blah anything
end
end

Edit: These examples i gave to you can only work in localscripts but i’m sure you’ll find a way on how to search it in a public script (not a module).

#3

When someone equips a tool, the tool parent switches to the player’s character.

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