How to use ContextActionService:BindAction

[KrimsonWoIf]

Hello, I’m making this chat module and I want it so when they press “/” it puts them in typing mode. How do I “force” the player to go into typing mode on a textbox just like roblox’s chat box

[7z99 (cody)]

You’d call TextBox:CaptureFocus on the textbox. There are already a lot of resources available on this topic, please use them.

https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/TextBox#CaptureFocus
https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/ContextActionService#BindAction

[KrimsonWoIf]

Okay so I found this solution:

local ContextActionService = game:GetService("ContextActionService")

local ACTION_NAME = "FocusTheTextBox"

local function handleAction(actionName, inputState, _inputObject)
	if actionName == ACTION_NAME and inputState == Enum.UserInputState.Begin then
		Msg:CaptureFocus()
	end
end

ContextActionService:BindAction(ACTION_NAME, handleAction, true, Enum.KeyCode.Slash)

However it adds this “/” in the textbox which is annoying…

and also @cody I did go to my other sources and I was typing this message before you replied to my response