How to make a mobile button mimic a click on a computer?

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#1

My gun system does not support mobile, So I have decided to make a button that only mobile players can see, but how do I make it shoot (by making it think that the touch was a click)

#2

You could just create a variable for detecting the MouseButton1Down & MouseButton1Up events.

You could also make it work with the TouchTap & MouseButton1Click events…

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#3

Sorry, Can you explain more? I have never really even touched input scripts, How would I detect it?

#4

does your gun fire once when you hold your mouse’s left click? or fires only once?

#5

It is quite simple, to be honest.

An example is this:

local button = --your variable--
local HoldingMouseDown = false
local ButtonWasTapped = false

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
HoldingMouseDown = true
end)

button.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
HoldingMouseDown = false
end)

While the mouse is being held down:

while HoldingMouseDown == true do
-- whatever you want to do here --
end

MouseButton1Down() should return the same results if the button was held down on mobile

#6

not sure but u can use ContextActionService

#7

i don’t think that his problem, he said that he already made the button but he doesn’t know how to make it shoot.

#8

yeah, you can bind the action…

#9

He could propably do something like this:

local button = --your variable--
local ButtonWasHeld = false

button.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
ButtonWasHeld = true
end)

while ButtonWasHeld == true do
-- whatever you want to do here --
end
#10

his problem is probably firing the remote event to the server along with the shooting position

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#11

Depends on the gun, Sometimes It can be an automatic gun, Sometimes not.

#12

Can you make it so it just clicks?

My gun only works if its equipped and you click, nothing else.

If they equip it, Instead of doing that, Why can’t I just mimic it clicking?

#13

Connect the button’s MouseButton1Click/Activated event/signal to the function that handles firing of the gun.

local Script = script
local Button = Script.Parent

local function FireGun()
	--Function that performs the gun's 'Fire' action.
end

Button.Activated:Connect(FireGun)
#14

Why can I not just do

if press button
click

Or is that not possible?

#15

What is that may I ask?