That’s good, but how would I check if the player is still hovering over the UI after 3 seconds?
I’m pretty sure that the MouseEnter and MouseLeave events only fire when you hover over the UI.
I need a way to know how long it’s been on the UI, so that the alt text only shows after 3 seconds of the mouse being on the UI, and not if it’s there for a shorter period of time.
You can do something like this, in the MouseEnter we are going to change the isHovering boolean to true, and set the start number to the current tick (time), now we know when the Mouse entered the button, the RenderStepped loop will continuously check if 3 seconds elapsed since we entered, we can set the finished boolean to true so it doesn’t go crazy. You can put the code that executes after 3 seconds inside the if statement
--!strict
-- Services
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
-- Variables
local button = script.Parent.TextButton
local start = tick()
local isHovering = false
local finished = false
-- Events
button.MouseEnter:Connect(function()
isHovering = true
start = tick()
end)
button.MouseLeave:Connect(function()
isHovering = false
print("You can hide the interface")
end)
RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
if (isHovering and not finished) then
if (tick() - start >= 3) then
finished = true
print("Held for 3 seconds")
end
end
end)
If you simply want it to show after 3 seconds of you hovering over the ui then you can do it like this:
local tip = script.Parent:WaitForChild("tip") --this is the alt text
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local hovering
local mousepos = nil
button.MouseEnter:Connect(function()
hovering = task.delay(3,function()
mousepos = uis:GetMouseLocation()
tip.Position = UDim2.new(0,mousepos.X,0,mousepos.Y)
tip.Text = button.Value.Value
tip.Visible = true
end)
end)
button.MouseLeave:Connect(function()
if hovering then
task.cancel(hovering)
end
mousepos = nil
tip.Visible = false
tip.Text = ""
end)
With button being your ui you want to hover over, you need to add a string value inside of the button and in it write whatever you want alt text to show.
If you want it to be more similar to the hovering over on for example devforum, instead of using MouseEnter you can use MouseMoved to check if mouse has been moved over the ui element, if so then dont show the alt text until mouse has been stationary for 3 seconds:
local distance = 10 --in pixels, this is if you want it to disappear if you move
--the mouse after alt text has been shown and the distance is basically how much you
--can move it before it disappears
button.MouseMoved:Connect(function(x,y)
if mousepos then
if x < mousepos.X+distance and x > mousepos.X-distance and
y < mousepos.Y+distance and y > mousepos.Y-distance then
return
end
if hovering then
task.cancel(hovering)
end
mousepos = nil
tip.Visible = false
tip.Text = ""
return
end
if hovering then
task.cancel(hovering)
end
hovering = task.delay(3,function()
mousepos = uis:GetMouseLocation()
tip.Position = UDim2.new(0,mousepos.X,0,mousepos.Y)
tip.Text = button.Value.Value
tip.Visible = true
end)
end)
If you only care about not being able to move the mouse before its been shown you can just delete the whole first if statement in MouseMoved.
Do you mean that if I remove the first if statement in MouseMoved, it won’t show unless I keep my mouse there for 3 seconds or more?
And if so, did I do it correctly? It still shows after 3 seconds even if I stop hovering over the UI before the 3 seconds.
local hovering = false
local tip = script.Parent.Parent.Frame
local mousepos = nil
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local distance = 10 --in pixels, this is if you want it to disappear if you move
--the mouse after alt text has been shown and the distance is basically how much you
--can move it before it disappears
script.Parent.MouseMoved:Connect(function(x,y)
if hovering then
task.cancel(hovering)
end
hovering = task.delay(3,function()
mousepos = uis:GetMouseLocation()
tip.Position = UDim2.new(0,mousepos.X,0,mousepos.Y)
tip.Visible = true
end)
end)
--Not my actual code, just what I used to test it.
Edit 12th July 2024
Wow… I completely understood everything the first time I read this now… I have really improved a lot at reading scripts and understanding what people mean since back then.
No, that if statement is for it to disappear after its been shown when you move the mouse, you still need the MouseLeave from the first code to make sure it doesnt show if you stop hovering before 3 seconds.
Your code works exactly how I wanted. But unfortunately you can only mark 1 reply as a solution.
You responded a bit later than the other person (but still very fast) so I will have to give it to him instead. Very sorry about that, but thanks for your help!
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