mouse down or mouse click

Unity Engine
1

Is there really any way to tell if the mouse is being held down or just clicked? I can’t really find a way to do this.

If the mouse was clicked over a 3D object I need to rotate, but if it was held down over a 3D object I need to move it with the mouse. The issue would be I don’t want the rotate to happen if the mouse is held down. I know it’s kind of a pain but the only way I can think of is to have a delay for a second or so and then check if the mouse is up or still down and treat it differently if it was.

2

You are correct. You will have to set up a delay and check. This is how you would implement double click as well.
If the mouse is clicked and released in x seconds, rotate, if it is still held down after x seconds move.
Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) will return true the first frame the mouse was clicked
Input.GetMouseButton(0) will return true if the mouse button is held down during that frame.

3

What’s the best way to create this delay?

4

you can try something like:

var delay : float = 0.3;
private var clickTime : float = 0.0;

function Update () {

	if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)){
		clickTime = Time.time;
	}
	if(Input.GetMouseButtonUp(0)){
		if(Time.time - clickTime <= delay){
		   print("rotate");
		}
	}
	if(Input.GetMouseButton(0)){
	   if(Time.time - clickTime > delay){
		  print("move");
	   }
	}
}
5

This worked, thank you very much!

6

This could help :

But I don’t know how to use it :sweat_smile:

7

This looks like the sort of thing I want to do. However, I’m using an Android device, does anyone know how to adapt the code to work for touch?