Is there a way to disable MouseButton1 for a few seconds?

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#1

I made a tool and if a player spams the Mouse 1 button, it activates the tool many, many times. Is there a way to disable the MouseButton1 button until the cooldown is done?

#2

There’s Tool.Enabled, which, when disabled, will stop Tool:Activate from firing.

#3

Use a Debounce variable to help prevent players from spamming.

Example:

local debounce = false -- this is for the cooldown

mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
	if not debounce then -- if debounce is false (rest of code won't run if variable is true)
		debounce = true
		-- your code
		task.wait() -- time for cooldown here
		debounce = false -- stops cooldown
	end
end)
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#5

Do you want it so that if the player clicks repetitively you want a cooldown or just 1 cooldown per click?

#6

Repetitively. I made a little gun tool that shoots projectiles. If the player clicks too many times, it fires very, very fast. I tried the debounce thing, but it didn’t fix it.

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#7

Oh, ok. Here’s a solution: (this works on local script)

ALSO PUT YOUR PROJECTILE CODE INSIDE THE -- your code

--// Variables
local runService = game:GetService("RunService")

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local mouse = player:GetMouse()

local clicksUntilCooldown = 5 -- increasing this will make it easier to cooldown
local currentClick = 0 -- don't modify this.

local cooldown = 5 -- edit this for your needs
local debounce = false

--// Functions
local function click()
	if debounce == false then
		currentClick += 1
		-- your code
		print(currentClick)
	end
end

local function everySecond()
	if currentClick >= clicksUntilCooldown then
		debounce = true
		print("cooldown!!")
		wait(cooldown)
		debounce = false
	end
	currentClick = 0
end

mouse.Button1Down:Connect(click)

spawn(function()
     while wait(0.1) do -- lowering this will make it harder to cooldown
	     everySecond() -- not really a second
     end
end)

Edit:
clicksUntilCooldown is the maximum amount of clicks the player can click to for the cooldown to run. (only under the wait(0.1)

edit the wait() code at the FUNCTION**. If you decrease it that makes it harder to start cooldown. Increase it and it does the opposite.

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