[1.20.1] Is there a way to detect a left click with an item in all cases?

[Sinsei]

I created an item with different modes. To cycle through those modes i wanted to use shift left and right clicks with the item in hand. But i cant seem to find a way to hook myself into left clicks.

 

Right clicks are easy:

For right clicks on a Block i can use:

 @Override
 public InteractionResult useOn(UseOnContext pContext)

For right clicks in the air i can use:

@Override
public InteractionResult useOn(UseOnContext pContext)

 

For left clicks on block it also is kinda similar. I can just override this:

@Override
public boolean canAttackBlock(BlockState pState, Level pLevel, BlockPos pPos, Player pPlayer)

But what about left clicks in the air?

 

Obviously i can just say that you can only cycle through the modes when you look at a block, but that feels iffy to me.

[dee12452]

How about Subscribe to the MouseButton event? That's what I'm using.

ex:

public class ClientEventSubscriber {
  /**
     * Subscribe to Forge-defined events
     * <p>
     * These events will be derived from Event
     */
    @EventBusSubscriber(modid = MOD_ID, bus = EventBusSubscriber.Bus.FORGE, value = Dist.CLIENT)
    public static class ForgeBus {
      
        @SubscribeEvent
        public static void onMouseClickPreEvent(InputEvent.MouseButton.Pre event) {
          final boolean isLeftClick = event.getButton() == GLFW.GLFW_MOUSE_BUTTON_LEFT;
        }
      
    }
}

 

Alternatively you could do on ClientTick `Minecraft.getInstance().mouseHandler.isLeftPressed()`

Edited March 19 by dee12452
Add boolean check