How do I prevent a Hotkey from activating while the LocalPlayer is in Chat?

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I want to allow the LocalPlayer to crouch when they press a hotkey out of 3 hotkeys (C, LeftControl, RightControl). But, I don’t want the player to be able to crouch while chatting.

Currently, they player can crouch with the hotkey, even while typing in chat. How do I prevent this?

LocalScript in StarterGui:

-- Hotkeys
local Hotkey = "C"
local Hotkey2 = "LeftControl"
local Hotkey3 = "RightControl"

-- Services
local PlayerSerivce = game:GetService("Players")
local TweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")

-- User Related References
local Player = PlayerSerivce.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character
local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

-- Animation
local CharacterAnimation
local Crawling = false

CharacterAnimation = Character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("Crawl"))

-- Functions
function ChangeCameraOffset(Offset)
	if not Character then Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:wait() end
	local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

	local Tween = TweenService:Create(Humanoid, TweenInfo.new(0.25), {CameraOffset = Offset})
	Tween:Play()
end

local function Animate()
	if Player.PlayerGui.IsMonster.Transformed.Value == false then
		print("crawl")
		Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 8 -- WalkSpeed Change
		Humanoid.JumpPower = 0
		ChangeCameraOffset(Vector3.new(0, -3, 0))
		Humanoid.MaxSlopeAngle = 50
		if not Crawling then
			CharacterAnimation:Play()
			CharacterAnimation:AdjustSpeed(0)
			Humanoid:SetStateEnabled(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Climbing, false)
			Humanoid:SetStateEnabled(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Jumping, false)
			Crawling = true
			Humanoid.Running:Connect(function(Speed)
				if Speed > 0 then
					CharacterAnimation:AdjustSpeed(1)
				else
					CharacterAnimation:AdjustSpeed(0)
				end
			end)
		elseif Crawling then
			Humanoid.JumpPower = 50
			Crawling = false
			Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 16 -- WalkSpeed Change
			ChangeCameraOffset(Vector3.new(0, 0, 0))
			Humanoid.MaxSlopeAngle = 50
			CharacterAnimation:Stop()
			Humanoid:SetStateEnabled(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Climbing, true)
			Humanoid:SetStateEnabled(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Jumping, true)
		end
	else
		print("dont crawl")
	end
end

-- Main
game:GetService("UserInputService").InputBegan:Connect(function(InputObject)
	if InputObject.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode[Hotkey] or InputObject.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode[Hotkey2] or InputObject.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode[Hotkey3] then
		Animate()
	end
end)
2

Next time use google first, anyways here:


-- Hotkeys
local Hotkey = "C"
local Hotkey2 = "LeftControl"
local Hotkey3 = "RightControl"

-- Services
local PlayerSerivce = game:GetService("Players")
local TweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")

-- User Related References
local Player = PlayerSerivce.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character
local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

-- Animation
local CharacterAnimation
local Crawling = false

CharacterAnimation = Character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("Crawl"))

-- Functions
function ChangeCameraOffset(Offset)
	if not Character then Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:wait() end
	local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

	local Tween = TweenService:Create(Humanoid, TweenInfo.new(0.25), {CameraOffset = Offset})
	Tween:Play()
end

local function Animate()
	if Player.PlayerGui.IsMonster.Transformed.Value == false then
		print("crawl")
		Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 8 -- WalkSpeed Change
		Humanoid.JumpPower = 0
		ChangeCameraOffset(Vector3.new(0, -3, 0))
		Humanoid.MaxSlopeAngle = 50
		if not Crawling then
			CharacterAnimation:Play()
			CharacterAnimation:AdjustSpeed(0)
			Humanoid:SetStateEnabled(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Climbing, false)
			Humanoid:SetStateEnabled(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Jumping, false)
			Crawling = true
			Humanoid.Running:Connect(function(Speed)
				if Speed > 0 then
					CharacterAnimation:AdjustSpeed(1)
				else
					CharacterAnimation:AdjustSpeed(0)
				end
			end)
		elseif Crawling then
			Humanoid.JumpPower = 50
			Crawling = false
			Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 16 -- WalkSpeed Change
			ChangeCameraOffset(Vector3.new(0, 0, 0))
			Humanoid.MaxSlopeAngle = 50
			CharacterAnimation:Stop()
			Humanoid:SetStateEnabled(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Climbing, true)
			Humanoid:SetStateEnabled(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Jumping, true)
		end
	else
		print("dont crawl")
	end
end

-- Main
game:GetService("UserInputService").InputBegan:Connect(function(InputObject, GameProcessedEvent)
    if GameProcessedEvent then return end
	if InputObject.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode[Hotkey] or InputObject.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode[Hotkey2] or InputObject.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode[Hotkey3] then
		Animate()
	end
end)

InputBegan has a GameProcessedEvent parameter

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3

I’ve done this once, and it checks if the player has focused on a textbox with a name that I forgot. I’ll look more into this in a bit.

4

Adding to what @domboss37 has said,
Whenever you use UserInputService and InputBegan, the second parameter would help you to prevent such cases where someone presses a key and checks if there is a gui open. Useful parameter in these cases.

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