Listen for a key in edit mode

Questions & Answers
1

Hey,

How could I listen for a key in edit mode.

For example I want a specifid event to fire when I press the ‘P’ button, like a shortcut button.

I am gessing my script should have the [ExecuteInEditMode] tag but I could not find anything to listen for button events.

Would appriciate any help.
Thanks in advance.

2

Yes there are a couple of ways that I know of doing this:

Method #1 - Custom Menu Items

Custom menu items can be created which can have their own keyboard shortcut. These are easy to create:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEditor;

public static class MyMenuCommands {

    [MenuItem("My Commands/First Command _p")]
    static void FirstCommand() {
        Debug.Log("You used the shortcut P");
    }

    [MenuItem("My Commands/Special Command %g")]
    static void SpecialCommand() {
        Debug.Log("You used the shortcut Cmd+G (Mac)  Ctrl+G (Win)");
    }

}

See:

Method #2 - Custom Editor / Scene GUI

When using a custom editor you can make use of keyboard shortcuts and mouse commands in scene view windows:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEditor;

[CustomEditor(typeof(MySpecialMonoBehaviour))]
public class MyCustomEditor : Editor {

    void OnSceneGUI() {
        Event e = Event.current;
        switch (e.type) {
            case EventType.KeyDown:
                break;
        }
    }

}

See:

3

I finally found the solution!
Thanks to this blog post: How to Add Your Own Tools to Unity’s Editor

using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;


[InitializeOnLoad]
public static class EditorHotkeysTracker
{
    static EditorHotkeysTracker()
    {
        SceneView.onSceneGUIDelegate += view =>
        {
            var e = Event.current;
            if (e != null && e.keyCode != KeyCode.None)
                Debug.Log("Key pressed in editor: " + e.keyCode);
        };
    }
}