Keybind detection help

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#1

Hello all,

I was recently creating a custom keybind system for my game, and i have struggled a bit with detecting if a UIS input is one of the keybinds.

here’s essencially what im doing:

local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Char = Player.Character

local BindFolder:Folder = Char.KeybindContainer

local BindTable = {
   BindFolder:WaitForChild("BindOne")
--etc, through five binds
--the "binds" are string values inside a folder. this feels rather inefficient to me, there honestly has to be a better way to do this. whatever.
}

function Connection(Input, GPE)
if GPE then return end
if BindTable[Input.Keycode] then
--remote connection
end
--how would i detect that?!?
--for reference, i also have a module that saves and loads DataStores for keybinds.
--however, i dont want to save a datastore everytime they update their keybinds, that would be terrible honestly. 
--i also tried Attributes but i didn't know what i should parent them to.
--also, i dont just need to know if it was one of the keybinds, i need to know WHAT keybind it was, so i can fire the appropriate RemoteEvent.

thank you for your time.

#2

are u trying to detect what the keycode was pressed that triggers that function?

local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local BindTable = {
	"F",
	"M",
}

UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gameProcessed)
	if gameProcessed then return end
	
	if BindTable[input.KeyCode.Name] then
		
	end
end)

all enums have .Name property that returns the string of the last word in it

#3

they have to be custom keybinds. the player can change them remotely, so it cannot have the values stored in a script. this would work for a non-custom keybind system, though.

#4

if ur binds are values then just do a loop and check if the value is equal to a keycode

#5

that’s what i tried to do, but values seems inefficient and i would need to have to determine which of five remote events to fire, which does not seem optimized.

#7

Plus, if the user wants one of the binds to be a number, the enum name would be One instead of 1. having at least ten separate specifications for keys would be janky at absolute best, probably very laggy too.

#9

stop acting like a know it all bro 1 remote is enough for sending data, receiving it and calling the needed functions

#10

even so, this is off topic. please remain on topic and soften your tone. if i were to use one remote, how would the script receiving the remote know what ability to use? all that would be passed is, for example:

"G"

if the player sets custom keybinds, how would the receiving script know what “G” is if its not linked to anything? hence the reason i was using five separate remote events to fire individually, according to input.

not everyone has the experience you do. please be respectful.

#11 
local Keybinds = {}

local ListeningToKeybind = false
local WhatAction = nil
UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gameProcessed)
	if gameProcessed then return end
	
	if ListeningToKeybind == true and WhatAction ~= nil then
		Keybinds[input.KeyCode.Name] = WhatAction
		ListeningToKeybind = false
		WhatAction = false
	else
		if Keybinds[input.KeyCode.Name] ~= nil then
			print("The Action With This Keybind is = "..Keybinds[input.KeyCode.Name])
		end
	end
end)

local function SetNewKeybind(Action)
	ListeningToKeybind = true
	WhatAction = Action
end

SetNewKeybind("Heavy Attack")

--Im Pretty sure u guys knows how to DataStore table like Keybinds