I was wondering if there is a function like KeyDown, except KeyHold or something like that so while your holding the key it can do a function instead of having to do KeyDown then KeyUp. Can anyone tell me if there is a function I can use to achieve this?
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Help with KeyDown?
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DragonODeath is making UserInputService too complicated. Here is how it works. If you want to see if a key is pressed use KeyCode.
#Keys
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
uis.InputBegan:connect(function(key, processed)
if key.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Space and not processed then
print("Pressed space")
end
end)
Processed is like chatting or typing into a textbox.
To find any key pressed use
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
uis.InputBegan:connect(function(key, processed)
if not processed then
print("Pressed key")
end
end)
#Mouse Clicking etc. You can use UserInputService to see if someone clicked using UserInputType.
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
uis.InputBegan:connect(function(input)
if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
print("Left clicked")
end
end)
You can find the rest of the enums here.
#Final Product
There is no "Hold" event with UserInputService so we would have to make a variable true and loop until the variable is false, we set it to false using InputEnded!
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local activated = false
uis.InputBegan:connect(function(key, processed)
if key.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.A and not processed then --pressed A
activated = true
repeat
print("Pressed A!")
until not activated
end
end)
uis.InputEnded:connect(function(key, processed)
if key.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.A and not processed then
activated = false
end
end)
Hope it helps!
KeyDown was recently deprecated. Due to this, you must use UserInputService. If you want to tell when somebody is holding a key, you would use InputBegan and run your code until InputEnded is triggered by them letting go of the key. If you are looking for a specific key, you could use KeyCodes to determine what key is being held in.
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Could you give me a small example of the code I would need to use?
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Ik, this KeyDown thing is stupid in my opinion :l
Following FearMeIAmLag's answer, using InputBegan and InputEnded, you can safely assume that a key is held down after InputBegan and that it's released after InputEnded . Furthermore, it is possible to know what key is being pressed via the KeyCode property of the InputObject. So, to exemplify, look at the following code:
local userInputService = game:GetService('UserInputService')
local F_keydown = false
local function OnKeyDown(key)
if key == Enum.KeyCode.F then
F_keydown = true
while F_keydown do
wait(1)
print'The F key is being pressed !'
end
end
end
local function OnKeyUp(key)
if key == Enum.KeyCode.F then
F_keydown = false
end
end
userInputService.InputBegan:connect(
function(InputObj)
OnKeyDown(InputObj.KeyCode)
end
)
userInputService.InputEnded:connect(
function(InputObj)
OnKeyUp(InputObj.KeyCode)
end
)
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Look at my answer, see how I made this code into 17 lines? Your script is 13 lines longer than my script! You didn't need the extra functions!
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Thanks. :D