best way to get keyboard input from the driver of an entity?

[Mornedil]

What's the best practice? (if it matters, it's a car entity and needs to check input from the driver, for things like acceleration, braking, steering, etc.)
Should I just use the ENT:Think() function to check the driver's currently held down keys? or use GM:KeyPress/Release hooks to store variables in the player depending on pressed keys? Or something else?

(I noticed that the Think function can miss a key press if you tap it very fast)

[Rubat]

It depends on what your on-key-press code is. If it only needs to be ran once, I'd use KeyPress/Release.

If it needs to be continuous, use ENT:Think and player:KeyDown & co.

As for your notice, please read the wiki page for ENT:Think.

[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/ENTITY/Think[/url]

[Mornedil]

It's a mix of both continuous inputs and basic key toggles. So I think I'll stick to the think function and just use a boolean for the toggle keys to avoid triggering them multiple times.

Thanks! I found that wiki page earlier and it made the keys much more responsive.

self:NextThink( CurTime() )
return true

But since this alters the frequency of how often everything updates, how would I do proper "delta timing" for physics forces to make them equally strong on different tickrates?

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Edit: This seems to work perfectly for delta timing, but please let me know if there's a better way

function ENT:Think()
	--get the time since last think
	local delta = 0
	if self.LastUpdate != nil then
		delta = CurTime() - self.LastUpdate
	end
	self.LastUpdate = CurTime()
	--print(delta)
	-- delta can now be used to multiply physics forces and such

	-- Physics test, making an object hover with a physics force and using delta to make it work on different tickrates
	local phys = self:GetPhysicsObject()
	local mass = phys:GetMass()
	phys:ApplyForceCenter( Vector(0,0,660*mass*delta) )
	
	--Set next think
	self:NextThink( CurTime() )
	return true
end