Virtual Keyboard Script

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#1

I’ve been working on a little test game recently, and realized if I want mobile support, I need a whole virtual keyboard. I’m trying to make it literally emulate clicking a character such as E on a real PC keyboard. There already is a game on Roblox with this concept and I tried to make it months ago, it didn’t work. I made a recording as an example of what I’m looking for.

#2

So… what is the issue?

We can’t just spoonfeed you the entire code for it

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#3

Sorry, let me get that.

for i,v in ipairs(Keys:GetChildren()) do
  v.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
     Remote:FireServer({Enum.KeyCode[string.upper(v.Text)]})
  end)
end

by the way this script is a local script.
It doesn’t provide any console errors so I don’t know what’s wrong.

#4

Try putting a print inside the event handler

#5

It does return a print, however, nothing else is returned
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#6

What exactly is going wrong? Also, we’ll probably also need the server script

#7

The issue I’m getting is that absolutely nothing is happening. The script is intended to quite literally emulate what happens when you click a key on a real keyboard. Like, if theres a keybind for E, clicking the E button would do it.

also, you cant fire client from a server script.

#8

You don’t need to send the keybind to the server then. Just emulate the keybind locally, and whatever the keybind does has the responsibility of firing the server instead.

#9

I don’t even know what happened or went wrong here

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#11

I realize now that it’s FireClient(), for this you have to put the player as the first parameter then put the second parameter is the information you’re sending.

Remote:FireClient((Player To Send To), {Enum.KeyCode[string.upper(v.Text)]})
#12

how would you define the player? Make a plr variable and use it or…?

#13

Your first problem is getting the clicks on the server and then firing the key to client, this is pointless since you can just use a local script and avoid having to use remote events. Through a local script you’ll also be able to just grab the local player through game.Players.LocalPlayer

#14

my issue is that i wouldn’t know how to “not” use the remote event. if i remove it theres an error and i cant do anything about it, im still extremely new to lua

#15

the remote event is just passing the info to the client. So if you change the script to something like this (local script):

local Keys = script.Parent.Parent

for i,v in ipairs(Keys:GetChildren()) do
  v.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
     local key = Enum.KeyCode[string.upper(v.Text)]
     --use the key for whatever
  end)
end

you can handle the key clicks on client without the remote event

#16

thats exactly what i was looking for! however, im still trying to make it emulate a PC keyboard click, any idea how i’d make that function

#17

From what I know I don’t think there is anything that allows you to do this. You’d have to manually fire the functions to do this.

#18

*cough* *cough* ContextActionService:BindAction()

#19

Hey! I just finished creating a module that I think can help you with your problem:
Input Service V2

Using this you can simulate moving forward and also simulate other keys

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#20

oh my gosh thank you so much i needed this

#21

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