How do I creating a toggle button?

[Loken]

Hello all,

So I'm trying to make a toggle button for my character. Just to see if it's possible for now then maybe expand it to do all sorts of things later. But I've ran into a problems that I can't figure out...

I want to have a ListenForEvent function within my character .lua file that looks for a certain keypress and when that keypress is done it runs a function, only problem is I have no idea what the keypress event should look like. Example of what I mean below.

inst:ListenForEvent( [A KEYPRESS EVENT?], function() testfn(inst) end, GetWorld() ) 

Thanks for any help and pointers!



EDIT: Nevermind, I was able to figure it out after staring at the code for a few hours. Dunno how to delete this though.

Edited October 10, 2014 by Loken

[Mobbstar]

Would you mind leaving a hint to your solution? Just for future reference, and other people who struggle with this.

[Loken]

I figured using a ListenForEvent for a keypress isn't possible (I may be wrong, but no amount of fiddling helped figure it out for me), so I created a keypress handler in the modmain.lua. Only problem is that all I can make it do is a print function since I don't fully understand how the handlers in the input.lua and event.lua work and every time I try to make my keypress call a function it crashes the game.

If you want an example of a keypress function you can look at the Too Many Items mod (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=257781035&searchtext=too+many+items), I got the code for what functions in the input.lua to use from it. Though they are clearly not the ones I actually want to use since my keypress function doesn't work how I intend it to...

[Fidooop]

Here's a good example for you, strait out of my Wilford Warfstache character from the Markiplier mod!

 

this is in his fn:

 

TheInput:AddKeyDownHandler(KEY_X, function()

if not IsPaused() and not TheInput:IsKeyDown(KEY_CTRL) and not TheInput:IsKeyDown(KEY_SHIFT) and not TheInput:IsKeyDown(KEY_ALT) then

SwitchPowers(inst)

end

end)

 

and these functions run everytime you press 'x' (switch powers will call to the other functions)

it's a nifty little bit of code that allows wilford to buff if his stache badge has a value over 100 and it even has a cooldown!

 

local function MightyWilford(inst)

inst:AddTag("mighty")

inst:RemoveTag("average")

inst.components.health:StartRegen(1, 5)

inst.components.hunger:SetRate(TUNING.WILSON_HUNGER_RATE * 6)

inst.components.sanity.dapperness = (TUNING.DAPPERNESS_MED * 0.5)

inst.components.sanity.neg_aura_mult = (0.6)

    inst.components.sanity.night_drain_mult = (0.6)

inst.components.health.absorb = (0.4)

inst.components.combat.damagemultiplier = (1.8)

inst.components.locomotor.walkspeed = (TUNING.WILSON_WALK_SPEED * 1.2)

inst.components.locomotor.runspeed = (TUNING.WILSON_RUN_SPEED * 1.2)

inst.Transform:SetScale(1.15,1.15,1.15)

inst.components.eater:SetCarnivore()

inst.AnimState:SetBuild("mightywilford")

inst.components.stache:SetRate(TUNING.WILSON_HUNGER_RATE * 35)

end

 

local function AverageWilford(inst)

inst:AddTag("average")

inst:RemoveTag("mighty")

inst.components.health:StartRegen(0, 5)

inst.components.hunger:SetRate(TUNING.WILSON_HUNGER_RATE * 1.1)

inst.components.sanity.dapperness = (TUNING.DAPPERNESS_MED * 0.1)

inst.components.sanity.neg_aura_mult = (0.8)

    inst.components.sanity.night_drain_mult = (0.8)

inst.components.health.absorb = (0)

inst.components.combat.damagemultiplier = (1.2)

inst.components.locomotor.walkspeed = (TUNING.WILSON_WALK_SPEED * 1.1)

inst.components.locomotor.runspeed = (TUNING.WILSON_RUN_SPEED * 1.1)

inst.Transform:SetScale(1.1,1.1,1.1)

inst.components.eater:SetOmnivore()

inst.AnimState:SetBuild("wilford")

inst.components.stache:SetRate(TUNING.WILSON_HUNGER_RATE * 0.8)

end

 

local function PauseTheStache(inst)

inst.StacheTimerGo = inst:DoPeriodicTask(1, function()

inst.StacheTimer = inst.StacheTimer - 1

if inst.StacheTimer == 0 then

inst.StacheTimerGo:Cancel()

inst.StacheTimerGo = nil

end

end)

end

 

local function SwitchPowers(inst)

if inst.components.stache.current >= 100 then

if inst:HasTag("average") then

if inst.StacheTimer == 0 then

MightyWilford(inst)

SpawnPrefab("shirtrip").Transform:SetPosition(inst:GetPosition():Get())

if inst:HasTag("swear") then

inst.components.talker:Say(GetRandomItem(WarfstacheQuotes))

elseif inst:HasTag("slang") then

inst.components.talker:Say(GetRandomItem(WarfstacheQuotesSlang))

end

else

if inst.StacheTimer >= 21 then

inst.components.talker:Say("I need to wait before I do that again...")

elseif inst.StacheTimer >= 11 and inst.StacheTimer <= 20 then

inst.components.talker:Say("I still need to rest.")

elseif inst.StacheTimer >= 1 and inst.StacheTimer <= 10 then

inst.components.talker:Say("I'm almost done resting!")

end

end

else

AverageWilford(inst)

inst.StacheTimer = inst.StacheTimer + 30

PauseTheStache(inst)

end

else

AverageWilford(inst)

end

end

 

so in conclusion... copy what I said I put in wilf's fn and change it to what key(s) you want to be pressed! and make it run off to a function that does what you want it too!

Edited October 12, 2014 by Fidooop

[Loken]

Thank you so much! That worked perfectly. I guess I was too stuck on the notion of putting the key hander in the modmain.lua. Couldn't see past it.

Thanks again!

Edited October 12, 2014 by Loken