How To | Converting a momentary button to a trigger using Lua scripting

Convert a momentary button to a trigger using Lua scripting

Updated at October 13th, 2023

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Procedure

This function will convert the momentary button press into a triggered output. 

  1. Drag a Text Controller into the design.
  2. Open the component
  3. Add two controls
  4. Set one of the controls to a "Momentary" button, and name it “Btn”
  5. Set the other control be be a "Trigger" button. and name it “Trigger"
  6. Open the script editor and copy the code snippet into it 
Component.New("Test")["Btn"].EventHandler = function() --This line captures the state change of the button press and runs function 

	if Component.New("Test")["Btn"].Boolean == true then --This line looks at the button presses state to determine if true or not 

		Component.New("Test")["Trigger"]:Trigger() --this line sets Trigger output  

	end
end

 

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