Repeat until MouseButton1Up

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#1

Hello! Is it possible to use the repeat until loop with an Event? i.e. the loop running until an event is fired.

repeat
	lockPickControl("W")
until Buttons.Up.MouseButton1Up

I already know about the messy “bodge” of having a variable that changes when the button is held down or not, but I have multiple buttons in my project and it would be sort of messy to implement it that way. I’m curious if there is another, cleaner solution.

Thanks in advance!

#2

Yes, you can create a variable at the beginning and have it repeat until the variable is true, then create a connection setting the variable to true when the connection is triggered.

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#3

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/datatype/RBXScriptSignal

That’s the purpose of the :Wait() instance method, it yields a thread of execution until the event fires a single time. Take the following for example.

local button = script.Parent

button.MouseButton1Click:Wait()

print("Hello world!") --This code isn't executed until the button is clicked.
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#4

:wait is better, why do you want to use repeat?

#5

Example code:

local event -- The event

local eventFired = false
while not eventFired do
    print("Not fired!")
    task.wait() -- Example delay, might want to use a different yielding function
end

local connection
event:Connect(function()
    eventFired = true
    connection:Disconnect()
end)

For the last part you can also just use event:Wait() then set eventFired to true (that yields, you can avoid yielding with coroutines, task.spawn, or something else). You’d probably want to put all that code in a function too, something like startLoop() etc.