How to have something happen depending on how long you press a button

Cradalack

I want to have a code where you press down the space bar and it sets a variable to how long you hold down the button. Does anyone know how to do that? Ex. you hold the space bar for 0.7 seconds so variable x is set to 0.7/

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Here ya go

when green flag clicked
forever
wait until <key [space v] pressed?>
repeat until <not <key [space v] pressed?>>
wait [0.001] secs
change [my variable v] by [0.001]
end
end

Last edited by SupaYoshiBro (Aug. 31, 2022 16:50:52)

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If you want to set a variable to how long you held down a key, just do this:

when [space v] key pressed
reset timer
wait until <not <key [space v] pressed?>>
set [variable v] to (timer)

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