Getting keyboard input from a editor plugin

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How do I get input from the keyboard on an editor only plugin that has no GUI? I want to call some code when I hit certain keyboard keys in the editor. The plugin isn’t meant to be used at run time and shouldn’t be associated to an Actor so I can’t use input actions.

2

I’m looking for exactly the same thing. Again everything in the engine seams to be written for PlayMode only.
It’s very hard to code tools for the editor.
Is there a default UInputComponent I can use to intercept editor keys?

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I stumbled upon the exact same issue, and I think I might have found a generic way of binding functions to input in editor mode:

// Needed include
#include <Kismet2/DebuggerCommands.h>

...

// Binding initialization

TSharedPtr<FBindingContext> context = FInputBindingManager::Get().GetContextByName(TEXT("PlayWorld")); // Not sure about this, but "PlayWorld" seems to be a persistent Binding context of the game viewport.
if (context.Get() == nullptr)
	return; 

TSharedPtr< FUICommandInfo > command;	
	
UI_COMMAND_Function(
	context.Get(),
	command,
	TEXT("CommandName"), // Replace strings by your command name
	TEXT("CommandName"),
	TEXT("CommandName"),
	".CommandName",
	TEXT("CommandName"),
	TEXT("CommandName"),
	EUserInterfaceActionType::None,
	FInputChord(EKeys::Gamepad_FaceButton_Bottom) // Replace by your input key
);

FPlayWorldCommands::GlobalPlayWorldActions->MapAction(
	command,
	FExecuteAction::CreateUObject(this, &MyClass::MyMethod) // Replace by your method binding
);


// Binding uninitialization

FPlayWorldCommands::GlobalPlayWorldActions->UnmapAction(command);
FInputBindingManager::Get().RemoveInputCommand(context.ToSharedRef(), command.ToSharedRef());
command.Reset();

You also need to add the “Slate” module to your dependencies.

It may seem a little bit hacky but it did the trick for me.