[MOD] Callback API for key and mousebutton[1.0][controls]

[Arcelmi]

Description:

This mod adds callbacks when a player press, hold or release a button.

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Latest version: 1.0
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License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1

API:

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Syntax:

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controls.register_on_press(function(player, key))

Description:
Register a callback to be called when a player press a key or mousebutton.

• player - ObjectRef
• key - string (can be "jump", "right", "left", "LMB", "RMB", "sneak", "aux1", "down" or "up")

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controls.register_on_press(function(player, key)
    minetest.chat_send_all(player:get_player_name().." pressed the key "..key.."!")
end)

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controls.register_on_hold(function(player, key, time))

Description:
Register a callback to be called when a player is holding a key or mousebutton.

• player - ObjectRef
• key - string (can be "jump", "right", "left", "LMB", "RMB", "sneak", "aux1", "down" or "up")
• time - number (time from press the button)

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controls.register_on_hold(function(player, key, time)
    minetest.chat_send_all(player:get_player_name().." is holding the key "..key.." for "..time.." seconds.")
end)

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controls.register_on_release(function(player, key, time))

Description:
Register a callback to be called when a player release a key or mousebutton.

• player - ObjectRef
• key - string (can be "jump", "right", "left", "LMB", "RMB", "sneak", "aux1", "down" or "up")
• time - number (time from press the button)

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controls.register_on_release(function(player, key, time)
    minetest.chat_send_all(player:get_player_name().." released the key "..key.." after "..time.." seconds!")
end)

[Desour]

I have already done something like this: viewtopic.php?t=17780

[Arcelmi]

Sorry I didn't see this...
Because I don't searched after something like this, because I wanted to update this with my bow mod.
I don't thought that somebody had make something like this.

[Arcelmi]

Does your mod also handle key releases? I didn't see anything like this in your code.

[Desour]

Does your mod also handle key releases? I didn't see anything like this in your code.

I think, I forgot that.

[azekill_DIABLO]

I have already done something like this: viewtopic.php?t=17780

it was CSM, this one is server side: a big improvement

[Desour]

I have already done something like this: viewtopic.php?t=17780

it was CSM, this one is server side: a big improvement

No, it was (and is) both.

[azekill_DIABLO]

okay. sorry. didn't senn it. need engine improvmements!

[Wuzzy]

Care to suggest to include this functionality into core Minetest, or at least builtin?

[azekill_DIABLO]

include this functionality into core

Including a functionnality in the core... What it's possible?

[Desour]

include this functionality into core

Including a functionnality in the core... What it's possible?

Minetest has some builtin lua stuff, someone could add this mod's functionality there as helper and make a pull request to the minetest github repository.

[azekill_DIABLO]

was ironic :D a builtin function would be simpler normally... but idk about the server connection... with builtin lua...

[Arcelmi]

License changed to GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1

[TechNolaByte]

wow this will save me a lot of time with an ultimate armor suit which has tons of special ability's which each need key binds

[texmex]

I need to check multiple keys at the same time. For instance, I want to check that Aux and Up is pressed at the same time while at the same time checking that no other keys are being pressed. How?

Can key be returned as a table instead? (key.up, key.sneak and so on)

[Lone_Wolf]

Didn't realize there was a forums topic. Great mod!
May I suggest you add this mod to the Minetest ContentDB?

[texmex]

keyevent mod is superior atm tbh.

[Lone_Wolf]

keyevent mod is superior atm tbh.

This mod was perfect for what I needed at the time. And it had been so long since I had seen the keyevent mod that I had forgotten it existed. Didn't help that it was in the CSM section (with no bold red letters saying it also doubled as a mod)

[Joseph16]

How do I use this? I installed it and tried to use the key release thing but I couldn't get it to work. Please explain how this mod works.

[u18398]

How do I use this? I installed it and tried to use the key release thing but I couldn't get it to work. Please explain how this mod works.

This is an api. please ask google what an api is.
This mod is totally useless if you do not write mods for yourself
and you need to check for pressed keys in your mod.

[Joseph16]

I know what an api is. I'm making my own mods. What I'm asking is how to I use it with a mod? I installed the mod and enabled it, but whenever I tried to use the mod's functions it does not work.

[texmex]

Use keyevent mod instead, it’s better. I can show you how to use that.

[Lone_Wolf]

Use keyevent mod instead, it’s better. I can show you how to use that.

I don't see any register_on_release() or register_on_hold() functions in that mod. I'm sticking with this one...

[texmex]

You may get the same functionality by checking old_keys.

[Lone_Wolf]

You may get the same functionality by checking old_keys.

Is that just the state of the keys on the last check? If so that won't work for me without some extra modding I would rather not do