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How To Make A Gui Toggle Using A key?

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alienantics 15
10 years ago

I know how to make a Gui toggle from visible to not visible using one button, but I am unfamiliar with the onKeyDown function. Here is the script:

function onClick()
Gui = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.ChatGui.Frame.TextBox

if Gui.Visible == false then
Gui.Visible = true
else
Gui.Visible = false
end
end

script.Parent.MouseButton1Down:connect(onClick)

How do you turn this into an onKeyDown function?

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Answered by
Maxomega3 106
10 years ago 
-- in a LocalScript, in StarterGui

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer;
mouse = plr:GetMouse ();

function onPress(key)
    local Gui = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.ChatGui.Frame.TextBox
    if  key:lower () == "m" then
         Gui.Visible  = not Gui.Visible -- So much better, yes?
    end
end

mouse.KeyDown:connect(onPress)
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Thank you so much! alienantics 15 — 10y
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Answered by
systematicaddict 295 Moderation Voter
10 years ago

For this, you can use key:lower(), or key:byte(). It depends whether you want any key, or a letter, and whatnot.

Go here for more information on keys.

This has to be in a LocalScript, inside the StarterGui, or StarterPack, or any of their children for it to work!

local mouse = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse()
local gui = script.Parent.Parent -- direct the script to the gui, or frame here
local open = false

mouse.KeyDown:connect(function(key)
    if open == false then
        open = true
        if key:lower() == "k" then
            gui.Visible  = false
        end
    else
        open = false
        if key:lower() == "k" then
            gui.Visible = true
        end
    end
end)
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Answered by
chummymovie8605 0
2 years ago

Both these scripts above are more complex then it acc is its so much easier

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse() plr.KeyDown:Connect(function(key) if key=="-" then if script.Parent.FRAMENAME.Visible == true then script.Parent.FRAMENAME.Visible = false elseif script.Parent.FRAMENAME.Visible == false then script.Parent.FRAMENAME.Visible = true end end end)

it so much easier and what it does is whenever the key which in this case is "-" it makes the frame visibility off and when pressed again it goes back on it saves alot of lines of code hope it helps. :)

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