Getting the name of a button pressed?

Unity Engine
1

Hey everyone,

I’m kind of stuck with an annoying problem, and I can’t find a solution anywhere. I’ve got a load of if statements and I’d like to put them in switch statement instead. But I need to get the name of the button being pressed.
There doesn’t seem to be a way to access the Inputmanager eighter?

// buttonPressed = Input.GetKey(); //Put name of the button being pressed in a temporary variable.
// switch (buttonPressed){
case “Jump”:
//do stuff
break;
}here

Instead of:
if (Input.GetButton(“Jump”))
{
//Do stuff
}

Thanks many many!

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3

@gavinb80 that has nothing to do with keyboard input… op is asking for a “get current keyboard input” rather than doing “if this keyboard input… if that keyboard input… if the other keyboard input… if something else keyboard input…” etc.

4

Ah got confused by the use of the term “button being pressed” rather than key.

Apologies

5

Any particular reason why you’re fixated on using a switch statement? Switch statements are meant to evaluate the current state of a single thing, not multiple things in different states. What if the player presses two buttons at the same time? Are you just going to ignore one?

6

Thank for your answer. I only want players to be able to press one button at a time, so that’s why I wanted to use a switch!