[1.14.4] Help with keybinds

[nisser]

I'm very new to minecraft modding, yet i have some Java experience. For starters, i want to make a simple mod that uses one keybind, basically you press "N" and (for example) a sound is played. Tried to find a solution myself but no luck so far, so any help would be much appreciated.

[deerangle]

have a look at this: http://jabelarminecraft.blogspot.com/p/minecraft-forge-1721710-keybinding.html

[nenikitov]

How I did my key bindings:

I created a class "KeyBindingList":

(342 is a integer assigned to left alt key. Idk why, i couldnt get Keyboard.KEY_LALT to work, so i used a trich with writing the ingeer directly. IF you will need to do like I did, when all the code is setup and you are in game, you can press any key and it should write the integer in the console)

public class KeyBindingList 
{
    public static KeyBinding[] ModKeyBindings;
    
    public static void register()
    {
        ModKeyBindings = new KeyBinding[1]; //Create array
        
        //Assign all key binds to this array
            ModKeyBindings[0] = new KeyBinding("KEY.MODID.ACTION", 342, "KEY.MODID.category");


        //Actually register all keys
        for (int i = 0; i < ModKeyBindings.length; ++i) 
        {
            ClientRegistry.registerKeyBinding(ModKeyBindings[i]);
        }
    }

Dont foger to replace MODID and ACTION in "key.MODID.ACTION" and "key.MODID.category" with your modid and action that you want to make.

Then I created a class "KeyBindingList":

public class ModInputHandler
{
	
	@SubscribeEvent
	public void onKeyInput(KeyInputEvent event)
	{
		System.out.println(event.getKey());
      
        if (KeyBindingList.ModKeyBindings[0].isPressed()) //If first key is pressed
        {
        	       	
        	System.out.println("KEY IS PRESSED");          	
        }
        
    }
}

Then in my mod class in the setup void I added:

		MinecraftForge.EVENT_BUS.register(new ModInputHandler());

Dont forget to add these lines into your en_us:

	"key.MODID.ACTION": "ACTION NAME",
	
	"key.MODID.category": "CATEGORY NAME",

Of course with changing MODID, ACTION, ACTION NAME and CATEGORY NAME.

After all of this you should have a category in Control Settings with your CATEGORY NAME and you will be able to rebind it to whatever you like. In game, it should print in console KEY IS PRESSED whenever your key is pressed.

Hope this helps.

[Cadiboo]

You shouldn’t use the key input event, you should use the client tick event IIRC. https://github.com/Cadiboo/NoCubes/blob/2cebf4e0e61eac96ab8490d3830f35953a8e9575/src/main/java/io/github/cadiboo/nocubes/client/ClientEventSubscriber.java#L89-L223