Code like
if(event is InputEventMouseButton):
checks for a once-only event upon pressed or released.
I want continuous polling of a mouse button so that as long as the button is being held down, I'm getting executing some code.
I can set a flag upon pressed, and unset it upon release but it seems to me like there should be a way to poll the buttons.
If you have the mouse button bound to a action, you can use Input.is_action_pressed and that will return true as long as the mouse button is held down. I did a quick test, and the following works for me, with Mouse_Action having mouse button 0 as the only input bound, and with the code in _physics_process:
if Input.is_action_pressed("Mouse_Action"):
print ("DOWN")
else:
print ("UP")
Ah, thanks TwistedTwigleg, I see my mistake, I was trying calls in _input event like this:
func _input(event):
if (event.is_action_pressed("left_mouse")):
and only getting called once when pressing and once when released.
