How to make game ignore all inputs?

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I am trying to script a Gui with a keybind menu, and the way I swap out keybinds is by checking if a player clicks a specific TextLabel, then finding their next input with UIS.InputBegan:Wait(). However, the issue here is that I have no idea what this input could be, and I don’t want it to cause the player to do an attack in the real game. For example, if I was to set Attack2 to the R key, Attack2 would play the second the key is bound, and I don’t want this.

To make my question a bit clearer, how would I make a system that would find and ‘invalidate’ any key the player presses, so they can’t trigger any in-game InputBegan/BindAction events?

Here is my function that handles all of this, which fires when a player clicks on a TextLabel that corresponds to a keybind

local function changeKeybind(textbox, action)
	if debounce then return end
	debounce = true

	clickysound:Play()

	local prevtext = textbox.Text
	textbox.Text = "WAITING FOR INPUT"
	
	task.wait()
	
	local input = UIS.InputBegan:Wait()
	
	local override = nil
	local overridename = nil

	while input.KeyCode.Name == "Unknown" do --override to deal w/ m1 and m2
		if input.UserInputType.Name == "MouseMovement" then
			task.wait()
			input = UIS.InputBegan:Wait()
		else
			override = input.UserInputType
			overridename = override.Name
			break
		end
	end

	for _, bad in pairs(badkeys) do --keys that player isn't allowed to use
		if bad == input.KeyCode then
			textbox.Text = "INVALID INPUT"
			task.wait(0.5)
			textbox.Text = prevtext
			controls:Enable()
			camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Custom
			debounce = false
			return
		end
	end

	for name, v in pairs(keybinds) do --if another key bound to given keycode, unbind that attack's key
		if name ~= textbox.Parent.Name and override == v or input.KeyCode == v then
			textbox.Text = "Unbinding "..tostring(name)
			task.wait(0.5)
			keybinds[name] = "Unbound"
			menu.KeybindsPage.Keybinds[name].Key.Text = "Unbound"
			break
		end
	end

        --these lines aren't really important, just saving results of keybind swap
	keybinds[textbox.Parent.Name] = override or input.KeyCode 
	textbox.Text = overridename or input.KeyCode.Name
	updateControls:Fire(keybinds)
	debounce = false
end
#2

I believe this reply to a similar forum post may solve your problem.

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