It's pretty self-explanatory.

Need to be able to know when the player has just pressed the "Activate" button. Specifically, I'm trying to detect this when on horseback, but without dismounting the horse.

Maybe this is possible, or maybe it's just crazy and impossible without SkSE. Anyways, I'm giving it a shot

Hello.

Two ways of doing it come to my mind:
* Attach a script to the activated object, and hook OnActivate (or is it OnActivated?).
* Add a perk on the player. On the right side of the perk window, you can choose an "activate" trigger or something. It was designed for the cannibal perk (displaying a menu when you try to look a body) but it can be used for other purposes and you do not have to display a menu.

That's the point, I don't know what object will be activated. I just want to know when the player hits the physical button.
But the second may really work... I'll test it when I can. Thanks for the suggestion

There's no way to detect keypresses without SKSE.

The only key I need to detect (which is not even technically a key, but an event triggered by a key assignment) is the activation. So there might be a workaround like the one Perdev suggested (the 2nd one)

But you might be right instead (and that's what I fear ) But I'll have to check his Idea first.

The OnActivate event will detect activation though, the result of the keypress, in which case you'll already be in the process of dismounting.


Perhaps:

Int iActivationKeyScriptName MrEdScript Extends ReferenceAliasEvent OnActivate(ObjectReference akActionRef)	iActivationKey = Input.GetMappedKey("Activate")	Input.HoldKey(iActivationKey)	RegisterForKey(iActivationKey)EndEventEvent OnKeyDown(Int aiKeyCode)	Debug.Trace("Do other stuff, but don't dismount")	ReleaseKey(iActivationKey)	UnregisterForKey(iActivationKey)EndEvent

Of course, that does require SKSE, but something like that might pull off the dismount intervention.

Oh, try http://www.creationkit.com/BlockActivation_-_ObjectReference on Mr. Ed?

If I don't find a way to circumvent this without using SkSE, I might have to and your code model will be useful. And also, this script, should I attach this to a RefAlias pointing to the horse? Thanks. If I find a way around, I'll post it here.

BlockActivation might be all you need as the scripted OnActivate stuff attached to the horse should fire w/o triggering the mount/dismount.

So when you press [activate] on horseback, you're actually activating the horse (might I assume)... Clever! I'll try it!

Not positive it works that way for dismount, but activating a horse seems to be what prompts the mounting.

Simple: Since we're receiving the event anyway, why not check if IsOnMount() and, if not, call Activate(Player) with the ignore event flag? This would also ignore the blocked activation.