Determining the duration of a mouse click?

Unity Engine
1

Hi,

Is there a way of determining the amount of time the mouse button has been held down for?

Many thanks,

Jaz

2

remember the time.time when onmousedown has been registered and in onmouseup subtract the stored value from the current time.time.

3

there are Input.GetMouseButtonUp and Input.GetMouseButtonDown… so you could log the time at each and work out the difference.

4

Many thanks guys for taking the time to reply.
I’d arrived at pretty much the same thing whilst waiting.
Here’s my script in case its of use to anyone :

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class ButtonClickDuration : MonoBehaviour {

float timeCurrent;
float timeAtButtonDown ;
float timeAtButtonUp ;
float timeButtonHeld = 0 ;
bool draggable = false;

void Start (){

}

void Update (){

timeCurrent = Time.fixedTime;

}

void OnMouseDown(){
timeAtButtonDown = timeCurrent;
Debug.Log (“Time button pressed” + timeAtButtonDown);
}

void OnMouseUp (){
timeAtButtonUp = timeCurrent;
Debug.Log (“Time button released” + timeAtButtonUp);

timeButtonHeld = (timeAtButtonUp - timeAtButtonDown);
Debug.Log ("TimeButtonHeld = " + timeButtonHeld);

if (timeButtonHeld > 2)
{
Debug.Log (“Yeah, you held the mouse for longer than 2 secs!!”);
}
}
}

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