on_gui_click XOR custom_input ?

[apriori]

I've tried to cheat the impossibility of reacting differently to different mouse buttons.

naive cheat code

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global.key_tick

script.on_event(defines.events.on_gui_click, function(event)
  if event.element then
    local player = game.players[event.player_index]
    player.print("Clicked: <" .. event.element.name .. "> at tick #" .. game.tick)
    if global.key_tick and global.key_tick == game.tick then
      SuperHot(player)
    else
      global.key_tick = game.tick
    end
  end
end)

script.on_event("test-mouse-1", function(event) -- key_sequence = "mouse-button-1"
  local player = game.players[event.player_index]
  player.print("LMB pressed at tick #" .. game.tick)
  if global.key_tick and global.key_tick == game.tick then
    SuperHot(player)
  else
    global.key_tick = game.tick
  end
end)

function SuperHot(player)
  player.print("LMB clicked on GUI")
end

And found that these events exclude each other.
Are there any "cheats" to combine different keys? I remember that there is no straight way to find out key modifier.

And also, keys "SHIFT" and "CTRL" (alone) don't raise events. Is it normally?

[aubergine18]

As far as I can tell the modifier keys don't raise events on their own. As for detecting right-click, etc., on a GUI element, I don't think there's any way to do that currently (because we can't work out where the mouse is in relation to GUI). Hopefully the GUI updates that might come with 0.15 branch will yield improved GUI system.