GetControlState

This function will check if a player is pressing a particular control. Controls are those that affect GTA. If you wish to get the state of another key, use bindKey and a command function.

Note: Not all control states are sent to the server at all times, as such their state may be given incorrectly. As a rule, keys that move or affect the player or their vehicle are most likely to be accurate. For increased accuracy (and also increased bandwidth usage) use bindKey instead to bind a GTA control name to a function.

Syntax

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Server

bool getControlState ( player thePlayer, string controlName )

Required Arguments

• thePlayer: The player you wish to get the control state of. Do not use this parameter when scripting for client.
• controlName: The control that you want to get the state of. See control names for a list of possible controls.

Note: several controls are not synched with the server, therefore the function will always return false for these controls serverside. These controls are:

• next_weapon
• previous_weapon
• jump
• zoom_in
• zoom_out
• look_behind
• change_camera
• conversation_yes
• conversation_no
• group_control_forwards
• group_control_back
• sub_mission
• radio_next
• radio_previous
• vehicle_look_left
• vehicle_look_right
• vehicle_look_behind
• vehicle_mouse_look
• special_control_*

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Client

bool getControlState ( string controlName ) 

Required Arguments

• controlName: The control that you want to get the state of. See control names for a list of possible controls.

Returns

Returns the state of the control, false if the control doesn't exist or if the player is dead.

Example

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Server

This example starts a repeating check when a player spawns, if a player presses the fire key, they'll be killed.

function onPlayerSpawn ( theSpawnpoint )
    killPlayerIfTheyPressThisKey ( source, "fire" ) -- start a repeating check
end
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerSpawn", root, onPlayerSpawn )

function killPlayerIfTheyPressThisKey ( thePlayer, key )
    if ( getControlState ( thePlayer, key ) ) then        -- if they're pressing the fire key
        outputChatBox ( "Violence will not be tolerated!", thePlayer )
        killPed ( thePlayer )                          -- kill them
    else                                                  -- otherwise..
        setTimer ( killPlayerIfTheyPressThisKey, 500, 1, thePlayer, key ) -- call this function again in 500ms
    end
end

See Also

• addCommandHandler
• bindKey
• executeCommandHandler
• getCommandHandlers
• getFunctionsBoundToKey
• getKeyBoundToFunction
• isControlEnabled
• removeCommandHandler
• toggleAllControls
• toggleControl
• unbindKey