Godot Version
v4.2.2.stable.official [15073afe3]
Question
I am making a typing game using gdscript. A bit of a newbie, so bear with me. I used a tutorial I saw (converted it to v4 from v3), and used most of the code there. If I do the code below, it always gives me the uppercase version of the key, despite caps lock not being on or not pressing shift. Is this normal behavior? Is there a way for me to get the lowercase version of the key?
if event is InputEventKey and not event.is_pressed():
var typed_event = event as InputEventKey
var key_typed = PackedByteArray([typed_event.get_keycode_with_modifiers()]).get_string_from_utf8()
print(key_typed)
I’m new also making little projects , so please understand if I interpreted this wrong.
If you use a line edit I know you can use get_to_lower to convert all to lower case in engine and opposite for get_to_upper. If you need to change between upper and lowercase , I believe you could just check for a " == " input and look at the input from that.
@onready var line_input = $LineEdit
func check_typing():
var current_array = ["example", "test", "hello"] # Assuming current_array is defined somewhere
var typed_text = line_input.text.strip_edges() # Get the text from the LineEdit and remove leading/trailing spaces
if current_array.has(typed_text):
print("Test worked!")
else:
print("Something's wrong")
In Godot 4 you can simply use typed_event.as_text_keycode().
Calling get_keycode_with_modifiers() will correctly return the Latin keycode combined with those modifier keys. However, since you plug that value as a single byte into a PackedByteArray and a single byte can only hold values between 0 and 255 (inclusive) that originally correct information gets lost in the implicit cast.
You can always call the to_lower function (on any string).