Binding a context action service button to a keyboard input

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#1

Hello fellow developers ! I want to create a context action service button which will have the value of keyboard input and by this I mean that the button which I ant to create should do the same thing as when right click or button2 is pressed on a keyboard. I would really appreciate any help I receive related to this topic.

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#2

I would suggest reading this article(if you scroll all the way down there is a code sample that is explained in depth ContextActionService (roblox.com)

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#3

Thank you very much ! This article helped me a lot but I didn’t understand this particular line of code can you please help me with this.

local function handleAction(actionName, inputState, inputObject)
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#4

that will create a function for binding an action. once that function is created, you can bind that function into action, with ContextActionService.

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#5

so far I have created this script but its not working :frowning: , I don’t know why but there are no errors as well.

local contextactionservice = game:Getservice("ContextActionService")

local tool = script.Parent

local Block = "Block"

local function onButton2Press()

Block:Play()

end

tool.Equipped:Connect(function ()

contextactionservice:BindAction("Block" , onButton2Press , true , "Button2")

end)

tool.Unequipped:Connect(function ()

contextactionservice:UnbindAction(Block)

end)

here , block is an animation which is present inside the tool and I want it plays whenever the player presses right click while holding the tool and I want that same thing to happen when mobile players press the context action service button.

#6

there is no function :Play() for a string.

#7

it is an animation inside the tool so what function should I use to play it?

#8 
local anim = tool.YourAnimName

local function onButton2Press()

anim:Play()

end
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#9

the context action service button is not being created for the player

#10

what do you mean? is it an error?

#11

there are no errors coming but the context action service button is not being created for the player. I launched an emulation for an iPad but there is no button to be found on the screen after equipping the tool.

#12

maybe, you need to positioning it.

#13

here , I did some recording of what is happening.

#14

show me your full script. I wanna see what’s going on.

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#15

should I send the link of the model only ? I have no problem in publishing it for copying because the script is a little too big.

#16

just show me a little bit. modify it so that it didn’t looked like your script. for example for swinging, you just change it to print(“SWING!”)

#17

here. ClientScript - Roblox

its just the client script of the model where all the variables and normal functions as well as the attack script is present.
Theres this specific line which I think is creating the whole problem.

 if stats.controls.lower then
        contextActionService:BindAction(
            "Lower",
            LowerGun,
            true,
            stats.controls.lower
        )
    end

end)

tool.Unequipped:connect(function()
    button1Down = false
    mouse.Icon = ""
#18

your LowerGun function doesn’t even do anything. that’s why it didn’t worked.

only

if inputState == Enum.UserInputState.Begin then

which is not doing anything

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#19

so I should just delete it ? I just yoinked it from some website.

#20

no, you just need to make your function do something.

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