items now, how long the player has presset leftClick

[perromercenario]

good days

i have this impresion of mine that there is not posible to know how much time player has been pressing left or rigth click on minetest
i been looking inside the "projectiles mod" code and this guy has to press to times click to shoot and arrow

i show an example to better understand what i wanna achive coz english is not mi native languague and become a little hard to express complex meanings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi5hZE8 ... e=youtu.be

for this chainsaw i need a on_use = function() to start the actions and animations

but also a i need something like while_on_use = function() to update the animation frames

and lastly i need some off_use() = function() to finalize the animation and destroy the afected blocks consume the combustible etc etc

[AiTechEye]

you need something like this

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saw={
	users={},
}

on_use=function(itemstack, user, pointed_thing)
	local name=player:get_player_name()
	saw.users[name] = saw.users[name] or {user=user}
	saw.users[name].left = true
	saw.users[name].left_time = 0
end

on_place=function(itemstack, user, pointed_thing)
	local name=player:get_player_name()
	saw.users[name] = saw.users[name] or {user=user}
	saw.users[name].right = true
	saw.users[name].right_time = 0
end



minetest.register_globalstep(function(dtime)
	for name, u in pairs(saw.users) do
		local key=u.user:get_player_control()

		if not key then --player is offline
			saw.users[name] = nil
			return
		end

		if key.left then
			u.left = key.LMB
			u.left_time = u.left_time + dtime
			if u.left_time >= 10 then
--			...
			end
		end

		if u.right then
			u.right = key.RMB
			u.right_time = u.right_time + dtime
			if u.right_time >= 10 then
--			...
			end
		end
	end
end)