Make a textbox detect what you click

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Hey! I am trying to make a textbox detect what you click, for keybinds. I have a clip example of this, and I have no clue how this is done. Any help is appreciated!

Clip:

https://i.gyazo.com/3150b21c7ba5dbe394622950691a365f.mp4

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Use UserInputService InputBegan and you can gain the key code from that

Example code:

local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")

uis.InputBegan:connect(function(input,gameProcessed)
if gameProcessed then return end -- makes sure that it's not entered in Roblox chat 
if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.Keyboard then
print(input.KeyCode)
end
end
end)
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I was just about to ask if that is a solution lol, I just realized it. What a dumb moment for me. Thanks for the help though

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This is done by UserInputService’s InputBegan event.

-- In order to use the InputBegan event, the UserInputService service must be used.
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
 
-- Input is handled with this event! It fires every time a key is pressed locally. The gameProcessed variable indicates if the input was handled by roblox or not. A common example of this is when a key is pressed while chatting, which is processed.

local changingControl = ""

for i, v in pairs(script.Parent:GetChildren()) do
   if v:IsA('TextButton') then
      v.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() changingControl = v.Name end)
   end
end

-- This code assumes the script is in the folder/frame parent of the text buttons, and that each text button has its name defined separately.

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gameProcessed)
if gameProcessed then return end -- Make sure it wasn't processed!

if changingControl ~= "" then
   script.Parent[changingControl].Text = tostring(input.KeyCode):sub(13) -- Substring 13 characters from Enum.KeyCode., which allows us to only see the keycode being used!
    -- Other handling would go in here.

    changingControl = ""
end
end)

On mobile while writing this so formatting might not be the best, but this is an example of how something like this could be done.

Cheers.

EDIT: ninja’d

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