UIHANDLER OnKeyDown

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	Frame:EnableKeyboard
	OnKeyUp
	OnKeyDown

Fires when pressing a key.

(self, key)

Arguments

self

Frame - The widget receiving input.

key

string - The key represented by a UTF-8 character or a control word such as "ESCAPE", "BACKSPACE", and "LSHIFT".

Details

• Fires before OnChar (which can repeat while the button is held down). Usually followed by OnKeyUp when released.
• Requires keyboard input, which another Frame can block with Frame:SetPropagateKeyboardInput.
• EditBox also requires edit focus. Fires before OnEscapePressed, OnBackspacePressed and OnTextChanged.

See also

• Creating key bindings - An alternative more suited to handling game actions.