String as a input

Questions & Answers
1

I’m trying to make a public variable “button” and later use it as a input key. for testing purposes, I would like to be able to change string in the inspector that I want to press as the input. I’/m pretty new to scripting, and trying to learn some c#. I tried something like this:

public string button = “”;

void Update () {

    if (Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.button)) {

    resetCubes();

    }

}

that is not working at all, unity says that there is no definition “button” for a keyCode

2

You can’t do that. You can look at the the doc for valid keyCode but you can’t make it dynamic in this way.

3

Instead of string, it should be of type KeyCode. For example:

public KeyCode button = KeyCode.W;

//...(somewhere else in your code, you can change button..)
button = KeyCode.L;