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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.
module.Input = function()
frame.Visible = true
local key = UserInputService.InputEnded:Wait()
frame.Visible = false
print(key.KeyCode)
return key.KeyCode
end
this does not wait for keypress and instantly returns the Unknown Keycode. so i modified it:
module.Input = function()
frame.Visible = true
local key = nil
repeat key = UserInputService.InputEnded:Wait() until UserInputService.InputEnded:Wait() ~= Enum.KeyCode.Unknown
frame.Visible = false
print(key.KeyCode)
return key.KeyCode
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.
module.Input = function()
frame.Visible = true
local key = nil
repeat key = UserInputService.InputEnded:Wait() until key.KeyCode ~= Enum.KeyCode.Unknown
frame.Visible = false
print(key)
return key.KeyCode
en
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@farizarps good explanation. oftenz 367 — 6y