How to prevent tool activation when player swipes screen or uses joystick

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That’s how i activate tools on mobile

UIS.TouchStarted:Connect(function(_, proc)
    if proc then return end
    if chara:FindFirstChildOfClass('Tool') then chara:FindFirstChildOfClass('Tool'):Activate() end
end)

This successfully filters out GUI items like chat or jump button but fails to filter out the joystick GUI, besides I can’t find a way to filter out mobile swipes. I tried to search a lot on devforum but found no solutions so far

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So to use mobile swipe you could do something like this:

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local char = script.Parent
local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(char)

UserInputService.InputChanged:connect(function(input, processed)
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.SwipeDirection.Up then -- Change this to up, down, left or right the
		for i, v in pairs(char:GetChildren()) do
			if v.ClassName == "Tool" then
				v.Enabled = false
			end
	end
end
end)

this would be a local script in startercharacterscripts. I hope this was informative as well helpful at the same time.

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Ah so it’s basically Enum.SwipeDirection, Thanks alot for that! Here is how I did it

if UIS.TouchEnabled then
	UIS.TouchStarted:Connect(function(inp, processed)
		if processed then return end
		if table.find(Enum.SwipeDirection:GetEnumItems(), inp.KeyCode) then return end

		local tool = getCurrentTool()
		if tool then tool:Activate() end
	end)

	UIS.TouchEnded:Connect(function(_, processed)
		local tool = getCurrentTool()
		if tool then tool:Deactivate() end
	end)
end

EDIT Fixed the code, Enum.SwipeDirection*:GetEnumItems()*

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