How to stop input repeating

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Godot Version

v4.7.stable.official [5b4e0cb0f]

Question

I’m trying to prevent my game from executing code multiple times when detecting input events. I did some research and it seems like I’m supposed to use Input.is_action_just_pressed() instead of event.is_action_pressed(). But both functions seem to have the same result, which is detecting the input 3 times, even when the key is pressed and released quickly.

func _input( event ):
	if Input.is_action_just_pressed("TextForward"):
		print("INPUT: TextForward")
		Signals.emit_signal("updateDialogue")

This results in the print statement being sent to output 3 times whenever the “TextForward” key is pressed. What am I doing wrong here?

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Try to move your code inside the _process function instead and see if the problem still persists. Since you are not making use of the actual event anyway, you’re only using the Input class directly.

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Yeah, that fixes it, thanks!