More Efficient Way of Checking Mouse.Target?

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#1

I am making a script where if you’re hovering over certain parts in Workspace then it’ll make a GUI visible and then invisible when you stop hovering. But right now I’m constantly checking using while wait() do and there’s got to be a better, non-laggy, way to do it. Does anyone know what it is?

Edit: For future reference; I’ve marked @robloxgamerzys reply as the solution but this might not apply to everyone using it, if you need a different answer read through the other replies to this topic.

#2

cant you just use a clickDetector? It has functions for mouse hover enter and mouse hover leave
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/ClickDetector

#3

Actually yes, this would work, I already have click detectors inside of the items anyway so I can just use that function.

#4

Ye, you dont need to click it, when the mouse hovers over it, it will fire

ClickDetector.MouseHoverEnter:Connect(function()
	print("enter")
end)
#5

You could use Userinputservice.InputChanged with the downside of the gui sometimes wont update if you walk without moving the mouse. Also, instead of making a ton of loops, you could just check if there is a mouse.target and then update the popup if the target is a child of products within the input changed event. If you wanted to, you could also use runservice to make sure it always updates.

#6

You can use the mouse.Move event instead of a while loop or, and idk if this works: mouse:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Target"):Connect(function()

#7 
local Game = game
local RunService = Game:GetService("RunService")
local Players = Game:GetService("Players")
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Mouse = Player:GetMouse()

local Target = Instance.new("Part") --Hack.

local function OnRenderStep()
	if not Mouse.Target or (Mouse.Target == Target) then return end
	print("Mouse's target changed from "..Target.Name.." to "..Mouse.Target.Name..".")
	Target = Mouse.Target
end

RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(OnRenderStep)
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