GameMaker get current key pressed?

[Shadowblitz16]

is there a way to get the currently pressed keyboard key by looping through keys?

something similar to what this does for the gamepad..

for ( var i = gp_face1; i < gp_axisrv; i++ ) 
{
    if ( gamepad_button_check( 0, i ) ) return i;
}
return false;

I don't want to use keyboard_lastkey because that would continue to check every frame.

 

[SoVes]

can't you do something like so it would only trigger that frame

if keyboard_check_pressed(vk_anykey){
var current_key = keyboard_lastkey;
}

 

[Shadowblitz16]

that works thankyou!