Input Service - Fully Typed Keybind Wrapper

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Overview
Input service is a fully typed module I designed for my personal uses that I figured would be useful for some people. It’s a simple wrapper for context action service that supports custom keybinds, disabling-enabling of bindings, and more. It’s also very simple to set up.

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Creating an action


local InputService = require(path.to.module)

InputService.CreateAction(
	"Attack",  {
		Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1, 
		Enum.KeyCode.E
	})

Binding to an action

It is important to note that these functions wait for a return. So if you wish to yield, task.spawn().
If you return true, any bindings of a lower priority wont be called.

local PRIORITY = 1
InputService.Bind("Attack", "BindingName", PRIORITY, function(action_name, state, inputObject, gameProcessed)
	if gameProcessed then return end

	if state == Enum.UserInputState.End then
		print("Attack")
	end
end)

Unbinding of actions

InputService.Unbind("Attack", "BindingName")

Updating keybinds

InputService.UpdateActionKeys("Attack", {Enum.KeyCode.Q})

Toggling actions active
I use this alot personally. For example if I wanted to have a 2 weapons, instead of having one attack function and checking every time which one is equipped, I would have 2 Actions, and set which one is active depending on the equipped item.

InputService.SetActionActive("PrimaryAttack", false)
InputService.SetActionActive("SecondaryAttack", true)

Download

You can find the model on roblox here, and if you want to use rojo you can find the code here.

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