Question Emulate/Trigger keystroke via UIButton

[CheersMate]

Is there a way to emulate any keystroke via a UIButton trigger?

Background:
In VR, I'm looking for a way to advance the frame +/-1second (similar to Next/Previous Frame) without having the timeline UI open. In desktop I've mapped these actions to some keys using Acid Bubbles Keybindings.

My thought was if I could trigger the keystroke with a UIbutton, then anything that can have a keybinding (like clone or open timeline UI or ...) could also be easily accessible in VR. This would be awesome!

I considered the option to map to the controller but,
A. There are too few controller buttons for more than a few triggers and
B. The Vive controller mapping seems very limited and looks like that can't do anything more that the basics (see WrongTamago's Customizing SteamVR controller guide).

 

[MacGruber]

Is this what you are looking for? You can have the Timeline UI open on a "Simple Sign" atom in your scene....so basically all the buttons, not just forward/backward

In game UI

Advanced and intuitive keyframe animations for Virt-A-Mate - acidbubbles/vam-timeline

github.com

 

[CheersMate]

Is this what you are looking for? You can have the Timeline UI open on a "Simple Sign" atom in your scene....so basically all the buttons, not just forward/backward

In game UI

Advanced and intuitive keyframe animations for Virt-A-Mate - acidbubbles/vam-timeline

github.com

Yes. That's perfect and pretty much solves my immediate problem with easy timeline manipulation. Thanks!

But, while thinking about this my ambitions changed. I hoped there might be a way to do something more generic with mixing keybindings and UITriggers so anything that deem worthy enough for a hotkey could be easily accessed in VR (specifically my favorite keybinding: clone).