OnClientCharacter

This event triggers whenever the user presses an alphanumeric character on their keyboard. This also includes special characters, ie. " / # % [ ] { }.

Parameters

string character

• character: a string representing the pressed character.

Source

The source of this event is the client's root element.

Example

This example will output the pressed character in the chatbox.

function outputPressedCharacter(character)
	if character==" " then --if the character is a space
		character = "space" --change 'character' to 'space'
	end
    outputChatBox("You pressed the character "..character.."!") --output the character
end
addEventHandler("onClientCharacter", getRootElement(), outputPressedCharacter)

See Also

Input

• onClientCharacter
• onClientClick
• onClientCursorMove
• onClientDoubleClick
• onClientKey
• onClientPaste

GUI

• onClientGUIAccepted
• onClientGUIBlur
• onClientGUIChanged
• onClientGUIClick
• onClientGUIComboBoxAccepted
• onClientGUIDoubleClick
• onClientGUIFocus
• onClientGUIMouseDown
• onClientGUIMouseUp
• onClientGUIMove
• onClientGUIScroll
• onClientGUISize
• onClientGUITabSwitched
• onClientMouseEnter
• onClientMouseLeave
• onClientMouseMove
• onClientMouseWheel

Client event functions

• triggerLatentServerEvent
• triggerServerEvent


• Shared
• addEvent
• addEventHandler
• cancelEvent
• cancelLatentEvent
• getEventHandlers
• getLatentEventHandles
• getLatentEventStatus
• removeEventHandler
• triggerEvent
• wasEventCancelled