Godot 4 - Get the key associated with an action

This is a READ-ONLY snapshot of the Godot Community Forums when TwistedTwigleg was the owner, which is hosted for archival reasons only. The current Godot Community Forums can be found here.

Some links may point to external websites, including the current Godot Community Forums. These websites are not associated with TwistedTwigleg.

Godot 4 - Get the key associated with an action

GaryP

I've seen this done in Godot 3, and I can't for the life of me figure out how it's done in Godot 4 since they changed the code.
G3:
for action in InputMap.get_action_list("interact"):
if action.type == InputEvent.KEY:
print(OS.get_scancode_string(action.scancode))

I got close in G4:
var key_event: Array[InputEvent] = InputMap.action_get_events("interact")
print(key_event[0])
It gives me this:
InputEventKey: keycode=69 (E), mods=none, physical=true, pressed=false, echo=false
OS.something cannot connect to the above line.

I'm trying to get the E key to present to the user as a prompt as to what to press for the action "interact" that I set up in Project Settings/Input Map.
Any help would be great.

jfirestorm44

Maybe one of the InputEventKey methods will do what you need. https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/classes/class_inputeventkey.html#method-descriptions

Seems they removed scancode from Godot 4 and solely used Keycode now. The docs say for a human readable Keycode to use
OS.get_keycode_string(event.keycode)

davek

Do something like :

			var input_events = InputMap.action_get_events(ui_action)
			for input_event in input_events:
				if input_event is InputEventKey:
					if scan_code == input_event.scancode:

Because there can be more than one key for an event