Ignore input from get_axis when UI is selected

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Godot Version

4.2.2.stable.arch_linux

Question

I have a basic camera controller which moves the camera around with WASD with

Input.get_axis("move_camera_left", "move_camera_right")

This works fine, except that the camera is moved around when typing in the UI (like in a lineedit). For other things like scrolling, I can use _unhandled_input, but this doesn’t work for camera movement since I need access to delta time. Does godot have a way so get_axis will return 0 if a node is selected or something similar? Or do I have to write some solution myself?

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Take a look at how others do it, e.g. GitHub - ColormaticStudios/quality-godot-first-person-2: An actually good first person controller for the Godot Engine (version 2)

When you press ESC in their demo the fps control is disabled.

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Unfortunately, that’s not really the behavior I’m looking for. My UI is and should be active at the same time as the camera can move.

My problem is that I don’t want the camera and the UI to be explicitly aware of eachother, but have my camera not react to input that should only be used as input in something like a LineEdit

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a solution might be to have a static or an autoload class that contains a flag that you test for, e.g.

var is_ui_focused: bool = false

You could set this to true/false when having your ui focused, and check if its active before polling input