How to detect specific keys?

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I have a running script, But im assuming that when InputEnded fires, it fires for when any input that is no longer entered. which is a problem. that means if a player is holding shift and they let go of a movement key, their run won’t apply.

How would i use UserInputService to detect when a player lets go of a Specific key?

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yes it fires for any input but it also returns the key that was let go for example you can do:

game:GetService("UserInputService").InputEnded:Connect(function(key)
	if key.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.E then
         -- Do code
	end
	
end)
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oh, i didn’t know it’d do that. i’ll test it right now

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Yeah, just remember if you are not sure with something you can always just check the dev hub and the related code samples:

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/event/UserInputService/InputEnded

5

another quick question that just came up, i notice that when i press LeftShift, InputBegan is not firing, is this because ShiftLock is on? would i have to disable shiftlock in order to have this work or is there a way to bypass this and have both work

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are you sure I just tested it and it worked for me this is what I used, it is basically just the same code:

game:GetService("UserInputService").InputBegan:Connect(function(key)
	if key.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.LeftShift then
		-- Code
	end
	
end)
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Oh i forgot to change a value from it, yeah it works

is there a way to apply this to a loop though? like i have this loop that constantly updates the character’s speed but i don’t know how to impliment the specific key to this function so it stops looping when the player lets go of that key

loop:

repeat
					Char.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = Char.Humanoid.WalkSpeed + 1
					print(Char.Humanoid.WalkSpeed)
					wait(0.2)
				until Char.Humanoid.WalkSpeed == 50 or UIS.InputEnded
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you could do something like this:

local running = true

game:GetService("UserInputService").InputEnded:Connect(function(key)
	if key.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.LeftShift then
         running = false
	end
end)

repeat
	Char.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = Char.Humanoid.WalkSpeed + 1
	print(Char.Humanoid.WalkSpeed)
	wait(0.2)
until Char.Humanoid.WalkSpeed == 50 or not running
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Works perfectly, i may have to tweak a few things with debounce to prevent spam but it works just as i wanted, thank you so much for the help!

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