Detect any key input, regardless of unhandled

[Savvy666861]

Godot Version

R4.4.1

Question

Hey all,

I’m looking for a way to detect any input into the game engine for the purposes of rebinding keys.

I know that the _UnhandledKeyInput override exists and that works brilliantly for keyboard inputs, however it does not detect mouse inputs nor joypad inputs.
I also know that for general use I can get the actions from the InputMap however with the purpose being binding a new key to an action, this will not work.

Is there a way within godot to detect any input?

Thanks in advance!

[sixrobin]

Hi,

You could have a look at _UnhandledInput, that will catch inputs from any device, and then, use the event passed in as a parameter to detect what type of device the event came from (if you need that).

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In the game I’m currently working on, I’ve done my remapping system by implementing both _Input and _UnhandledInput so that I’m sure I catch every possible input.
I don’t know if my method is the right one (probably not tbh), but it seems to work fine so I’m sharing in case it can help.

My code looks like this:

public override void _Input(InputEvent evt)
{
    if (IsRemapping)
        TryRemapInput(evt);
}

public override void _UnhandledInput(InputEvent evt)
{
    if (IsRemapping)
        TryRemapInput(evt);
}

Basically, I’m redirecting any input, whether they are handled or not, to the same remap function.

[Savvy666861]

Thanks for your help on this, it absolutely pointed me int he correct direction.

To sum up what I ended up with is like this.

public override void _Input(InputEvent @event)
{
    if (@event is InputEventKey || @event is InputEventMouseButton || @event is InputEventJoypadButton)
    {
        if (InputManager.Instance.KeybindingEntryMode && @event.IsReleased())
        {
            var keySet = SetCustomKeybinding(@event);

            Task.Run(async () =>
            {
                await Task.Delay(10);

                InputManager.Instance.KeybindingEntryMode = !keySet;
            });
        }
    }

    base._Input(@event);
}

Effectively _Input checks for any event, I filter to the ones I want to look at, check if it’s a key up event and whether I should be looking for key entries in the first place, set the custom key binding and then after a small delay set looking for entries to whether we actually received a valid key.

The small delay is to add some click stop on buttons, preventing my system from re-clicking the button if the pressed key is something like enter, or A on a controller.

Thanks for the help!