How to toggle a boolean on and off on mouse input ?

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I made this script:

 private var onoff : boolean = false;

 function Update (){
 
     if(Input.GetButtonDown ("Fire1")){
     
         onoff = true;
         print("left");
         
         }
         
         if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1") && onoff == true){
         
         onoff = false;
         print("right");
         
         }
 
 }

but I don't know why isn't working, I want it to toggle on and off something.

how can I achieve this ?

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Answer by aldonaletto · Oct 06, 2011 at 04:04 PM

There's a much easier way to do that:

 private var onoff : boolean = false;
 
 function Update (){
 
     if(Input.GetButtonDown ("Fire1")){
         onoff = !onoff; // toggles onoff at each click
     
         if (onoff){
             print("left");
         } else {
             print("right");
         }
     }
 }

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Zerial · Oct 06, 2011 at 06:41 PM 0

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thanks, it works great.

psychentist · May 06, 2013 at 05:12 AM 0

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Boolean = !Boolean.

Very elegant.

Lt.ven0mI · Oct 05, 2013 at 11:09 AM 0

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OMG you are awesome thank you so much!!!

GH0STfdd · Apr 28, 2015 at 08:19 PM 0

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Thank you! :))

azinicus · May 09, 2016 at 06:32 PM 0

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BAH, Awesome! This is one of those things where I would've spent 10 lines of code doing a conditional statement SMH

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