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GM:PlayerButtonDown

  GM:PlayerButtonDown( Player ply, number button )
This hook is predicted. This means that in singleplayer, it will not be called in the Client realm.

Description

Called when a player presses a button.

This will not be called if player has a panel opened with keyboard input enabled, use PANEL:OnKeyCodePressed instead.

Arguments

1 Player ply
Player who pressed the button
2 number button
The button, see BUTTON_CODE enum

Example

Prints the person who pressed the key.

hook.Add( "PlayerButtonDown", "PlayerButtonDownWikiExample", function( ply, button ) if CLIENT then if ( IsFirstTimePredicted() ) then print( ply:Nick() .. " pressed " .. input.GetKeyName( button ) ) end else print( ply:Nick() .. " pressed " .. button ) end end)

Example

Prints the person who pressed the key if it is the T key.

hook.Add( "PlayerButtonDown", "PlayerButtonDownWikiExample2", function( ply, button ) if button != KEY_T then return end if CLIENT and not IsFirstTimePredicted() then return end print( ply:Nick() ) end)