How to disable arrow key movement without disabling use of arrow keys

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#1

Basically what I want to do is similar to this post, (How do I disable arrow keys?) which is disable arrow keys, but instead I want to be able to use the arrow keys to move a gui around.

The issue with this post is that it makes the arrow keys unusable.

#2

It would be helpful if you were a lot more specific, because this can mean virtually anything.
Though I made an attempt, and using a script in the post you linked, the input will still get detected by the UserInputService. With that, you can do ‘something else’.

E.g:

local ContextActionService = game:GetService("ContextActionService")
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")

ContextActionService:BindActionAtPriority("DisableArrowKeys", function()
	return Enum.ContextActionResult.Sink
end, false, Enum.ContextActionPriority.High.Value, Enum.KeyCode.Up, Enum.KeyCode.Down, Enum.KeyCode.Left, Enum.KeyCode.Right)

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gameProcessedEvent)
	
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Up or input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Down or input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Left or input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Right then
		local fullInput = tostring(input.KeyCode)
		print(string.sub(fullInput, 14), "arrow detected.")
	end
	
end)
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#3

Sorry! What I am trying to do is use the arrow keys to move a gui around. I will look at your solution, thank you

#4

Basically how you could handle this. Probably not exactly how you would want to handle this depending on how/when it’s being used. More of a starting point …

-- ServerScript in ServerScriptService

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
    local humanoidRootPart = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
    humanoidRootPart.Anchored = true

    UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gameProcessed)
        if not gameProcessed then
            if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.Keyboard then
                if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Up then
                elseif input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Down then
                elseif input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Left then
                elseif input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Right then
                end
            end
        end
    end)

    UIS.InputEnded:Connect(function(input)
        if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.Keyboard then
            if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Up then
            elseif input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Down then
            elseif input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Left then
            elseif input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Right then
            end
        end
    end)
end)
#5

The solution was just not to check for game processed event when using userinputservice. Thanks

#6

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