How to Make a Working Keyboard in GKC

Greetings users of the Gimkit Forums,
I’m actually surprised I couldn’t find a guide for this. I thought of how many things you could do with it and thought, “We need a guide for this.” So without further delay,

How to make a working keyboard in Gimkit Creative.

Final Product


As you can see, you’ll be able to type any message.

Supplies Needed

20340 Memory
x2 Property Devices
x31 Barriers (Optional)
x32 Text Devices
x32 Triggers
x33 Blocks

Property

Get two property devices and place them. Name one “Text” and the other “Next Letter”
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Other than the name, leave the other settings default.

How to Make the Text Change

Place a trigger. Change these settings:

Visible in Game --> No
Trigger by Player Collision --> No
Trigger when receiving on "change property"

Create a code block. Insert the following code.
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This will take the current text and add whatever character you tell it to at the end. It will then broadcast on a channel that will change a text device’s content to the “Text” property.

You will then get a text device and place it. I changed the text size to 40, but you can pick any size. Create a code block and click “When receiving on channel…” and type “Change Text”
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Creating the Keys

Place a barrier and set the color to white, and the alpha to 1.00.
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Set Collision Enabled --> No
Change the size to a small square. Copy and paste these barriers into a keyboard pattern. Get a new text device, change the size to 50, and place it on top of each barrier. Change the text to the main characters on a keyboard.


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(I couldn’t fit it all into one screenshot.)

Place a trigger on top of each key. Change Visible in Game --> No Create a code block and add the following code:
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Replace “q” with the letter that key will type.

Space Key

This is the same as the letters, but type a space where the letter would go.
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Delete Key

Change the code of the delete key to the following:
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(The value of “Text” is a space, but type nothing for “Next Letter”)

Possible Uses

This could be used for many things in a map. You could use it to send a message to other players, type commands, and much more. Let me know if you have ideas for uses of this.

Thanks for reading, have fun creating, and I’ll see you around the forums!

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I believe there was another guide on this? it might of gotten deleted in “the Purge”

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I looked for one before creating this, but found nothing.

It was the guide purge, the keyboard guides must have been deleted…

Did you just add that?

Why do I have a feeling this is copy and paste-
probably not, how could you get it while looking for one?
Whateves, nice job resurrecting the guide

This might get deleted again since the old one was involved in the purge. If another purge happens.

Yep. It was made by apollo02, but it did get deleted in the guide purge

CustomCoaster hopefully not

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o7 to all those guides that were lost.

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Yeah, hopefully
We should be cautious and make backups incase it happens again
They were innocent I tell ya, innocent!

A guide about a working keyboard was made but got deleted in a guide purge, so unfortunately this probably shouldn’t be up.

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No @mysz it’s okay for now, if the guides aren’t brought back, this can act as a back up!

Why were they deleted though?

We should make backups to store in google notes
we also shouldn’t be talking about the whole guide purge thing…

I… dont have an answer, probably to deal with extreme load.

Very unfortunate.
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BH said not to repost them, to his appreciation, this probably should be deleted, just in case.

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Great guide!
It could have been more memory-efficient, though.

The concerns might be something about sending inappropriate things with a keyboard, but overall I think it’s helpful. I might use it in my game actually. :sweat_smile:

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Make a text filter.

If something inappropriate is sent, I feel they should be the ones punished, the the creators of the guides.

Yeah, that would be quite simple to do.

That might be hard. You can replace some letters with others.

oop nvm lol