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Waiting for player to press any key?
I'm working on a key-bind mapper and I have a function that's supposed to wait until the player presses any key and returns the key the player pressed.
1 | module.Input = function() |
2 | frame.Visible = true |
3 | local key = UserInputService.InputEnded:Wait() |
4 | frame.Visible = false |
5 | print(key.KeyCode) |
6 | return key.KeyCode |
7 | end |
this does not wait for keypress and instantly returns the Unknown Keycode. so i modified it:
1 | module.Input = function() |
2 | frame.Visible = true |
3 | local key = nil |
4 | repeat key = UserInputService.InputEnded:Wait() until UserInputService.InputEnded:Wait() ~= Enum.KeyCode.Unknown |
5 | frame.Visible = false |
6 | print(key.KeyCode) |
7 | return key.KeyCode |
8 | end |
this actually waits for the keypress but still returns unknown Keycode
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Unless I’m missing something here the second one isn’t actually assigning your key variable to the KeyCode. DinozCreates 1070 — 6y
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i forgot to put that in the question. Updated farizarps 132 — 6y
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I've fixed my problem. ill share so others can learn from it.
UserInputService.InputEnded:Wait() returns the inputObject, in order to know what key was presed, we use inputObject.KeyCode
In repeat key = UserInputService.InputEnded:Wait() until UserInputService.InputEnded:Wait() ~= Enum.KeyCode.Unknown because i was comparing an inputObject to a keycode it would return true.
1 | module.Input = function() |
2 | frame.Visible = true |
3 | local key = nil |
4 | repeat key = UserInputService.InputEnded:Wait() until key.KeyCode ~= Enum.KeyCode.Unknown |
5 | frame.Visible = false |
6 | print(key) |
7 | return key.KeyCode |
8 | en |
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@farizarps good explanation. oftenz 367 — 6y