How do you detect keyboard input in Editor Scripts?

Unity Engine
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Hello everyone,

Ran into a bit of a snag. I’m trying to code a level editor for my cube-based map package. I figured the smoothest way would be to draw a 3d grid of the desired bounds… and then allow the user to scroll through selected tiles with their arrow keys (or wasd). When you highlight a tile, you could then add a prefab’d graphical tile to the space.

I am unable to figure out how to accept keyboard input though… any advice? (Input doesn’t seem to do anything, nor does Event…)

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Can you post the code you are using?

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Hello andeeee,

I managed to get it working… apparently I was using the SetDirty incorrectly (was setting the inspector as dirty instead of the target).

This is an excerpt from the Custom Editor I wrote.

//    public override void OnInspectorGUI()
//    {
//        DrawDefaultInspector();
//        BasicGameBoard bgb = target as BasicGameBoard;

//        if (Event.current.Equals(Event.KeyboardEvent("W")))
//            bgb.editPosition += Vector3.forward;
//        if (Event.current.Equals(Event.KeyboardEvent("S")))
//            bgb.editPosition += Vector3.back;
//        if (Event.current.Equals(Event.KeyboardEvent("D")))
//            bgb.editPosition += Vector3.right;
//        if (Event.current.Equals(Event.KeyboardEvent("A")))
//            bgb.editPosition += Vector3.left;
//        if (Event.current.Equals(Event.KeyboardEvent("#W")))
//            bgb.editPosition += Vector3.up;
//        if (Event.current.Equals(Event.KeyboardEvent("#S")))
//            bgb.editPosition += Vector3.down;

//        bgb.editPosition.x = Mathf.Clamp(bgb.editPosition.x, 0, bgb.MaxDimensions.x - 1.0f);
//        bgb.editPosition.y = Mathf.Clamp(bgb.editPosition.y, 0, bgb.MaxDimensions.y - 1.0f);
//        bgb.editPosition.z = Mathf.Clamp(bgb.editPosition.z, 0, bgb.MaxDimensions.z - 1.0f);

        
//        Color handleColor;
//        handleColor = Color.blue;
//        handleColor.a = 0.25f;
//        Handles.color = handleColor;
//        Handles.CubeCap(0, bgb.editPosition, Quaternion.identity, 1.0f);
//        EditorUtility.SetDirty(target);
//    }

I was originally trying to use the Input class, but the Event class does seem to have what I want. If there’s a better way I’d love to hear it though!

Cheers