Many entities on GG has parentheses on their name such "Empty Barrel (Hazard)" or many others.

I've the "scankey" pic, but does not found any key.
I've tried with "GetScancode()" and even with "g_inkey" just in case. New build...

Working on getting user input via lua, and I've got it, the problem comes when user need to type something like example above, user can't type parentheses, and this is a great issue when you need make comparisons, since you need the exact name to work with.

Wonder if this maybe comes because the key combo needed, in parentheses case you would need to press "shift + /" keys. Therefore this is another issue I'm having.

Edit just for adding something I missed.
In standard LUA "io.read()" would work fine on this case, but it looks do not work that fine on GG.

With "io.read()" you can get any key pressed by the user as input, just put something like: answers = io.read() and you are done.

I am going to delete all the characters from the names that are not covered by GG, such as removing all the parentheses from the previous example, in this way they coincide in a comparison or search by name.
Anyway it is still necessary to read the keystroke when keys combination.

Seems to work OK. Cheers.

"(" = Shift + 9 on my keyboard so just get the scancode value for 9 and check if the Shift key is also pressed?

Lol, great minds think alike …. fools seldom differ.

@ Ciber
Nice tip mate, now it works.
I've missed that lua command.

thanks.
Now I've got the user input as I want to work with.