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tribal fractal Oct 24, 2019, 6:25 PM

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loading 100 assets sync isn't so slow

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thanks dude for ideas 🙂

split laurel Oct 24, 2019, 6:33 PM

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np, all of this has helped me too so far :)

tribal fractal Oct 24, 2019, 6:48 PM

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hmn I'm curious how to get TWeakObjectPtr from FAssetData

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maybe Property table can work with TWeakObjectPtrs and try to load them when needed

split laurel Oct 24, 2019, 6:53 PM

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just get TSoftObjectPtr instead

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sec

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https://gyazo.com/bbdbfb32ae8d3da93f539a3ebe8de5a4

Gyazo

tribal fractal Oct 24, 2019, 6:56 PM

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yea but SPropertyEditor need TWeakObjPtr

tribal fractal Oct 24, 2019, 7:52 PM

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hmn how to stop FStreamableManager from async loading?

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Like this:
for (FAssetData& Path : ItemsToAsyncLoad)
{
TArray<TSharedRef<FStreamableHandle>> HandleList;
if (StreamableManager.GetActiveHandles(Path.ToSoftObjectPath(), HandleList))
{
for (TSharedRef<FStreamableHandle>& Handle : HandleList)
Handle.Get().CancelHandle();
}
}

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but I can see they are still loading using stats lol 😄

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it just stops delegates from firing but not actualy disable requested async load 😄

maiden talon Oct 25, 2019, 8:00 AM

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How do I position a widget, except with just HAlign and VAlign

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e.g. if I want it anchored to the center but like offset 100 pixels lower

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do you just do that with padding?

maiden talon Oct 25, 2019, 8:33 AM

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how can I copy a slate brush

pastel phoenix Oct 25, 2019, 8:47 AM

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by padding, but it is not only option.
you can make a vertical box, and split it by slots, and set the height of every slot

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or overlay

maiden talon Oct 25, 2019, 9:21 AM

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is there any proper way to preview a slate widget btw?

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like maybe an editor or something

main hedge Oct 25, 2019, 9:35 AM

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use umg br_wow

maiden talon Oct 25, 2019, 9:36 AM

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I do for most things, it's just this async loading screen I need, and all examples I find are mate with Slate since that runs on a different thread by default

main hedge Oct 25, 2019, 9:37 AM

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you could stick your slate widget in a umg one and preview it that way br_big_brain

quaint zealot Oct 25, 2019, 11:03 AM

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Slate does not run on a different thread

maiden talon Oct 25, 2019, 11:05 AM

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this dude from epic says it does https://youtu.be/ON1_dEHoNDg?t=1199

YouTube

Unreal Engine

Async Loading Screens and Transition Levels | Unreal Fest Europe 2...

This engineer-oriented talk about assets loading management for good performance and smooth transitions by Epic Games' Support Engineer Axel Riffard goes ove...

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quaint zealot Oct 25, 2019, 11:06 AM

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It does not

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The rendering of Slate (and all rendering in UE4) does

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The entire UI updates, callbacks, all your UI code, runs on main thread

maiden talon Oct 25, 2019, 11:07 AM

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well, it works for my purposes so good enough

tribal fractal Oct 25, 2019, 11:28 AM

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anyone know how to get key from FPointerEvent? I have OnMouseButtonDown but want to check if it's left mouse button or right.

main hedge Oct 25, 2019, 11:31 AM

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slate is indeed ticked on another thread during the async loading screen though

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its very strange

quaint zealot Oct 25, 2019, 11:32 AM

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Yeah, but only in that specific case

tribal fractal Oct 25, 2019, 11:32 AM

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found this: MouseEvent.GetEffectingButton() == EKeys::LeftMouseButton

pastel phoenix Oct 25, 2019, 11:59 AM

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MouseEvent.IsMouseButtonDown(EKeys::LeftMouseButton) or MouseEvent.GetPressedButtons()

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buttons could be pressed together

warm vault Oct 25, 2019, 1:09 PM

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Ehy guys, I'd like to make a custom USpinBox which could allow text to be shown sometimes instead of only-numbers;
Instead of overlaying a text onto it, I decided to make a custom class which allows me to customize the slate graphics into it
However, I don't know how to traverse the slate tree to get all the children of a slot recursively in order to find the SEditableText element to be replaced with a custom one
Does anyone know how to do this?

tribal fractal Oct 26, 2019, 11:32 AM

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how to save asset? I have package pointer why SavePackage need that much parameters?

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this is working

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tribal fractal Oct 26, 2019, 12:06 PM

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Items editor work in progress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCyQO_wcitU

Still to do:

Filter by item type: change columns then (eg. weapons data)
Search should work with async loading as well,

YouTube

Andrzej Koloska

Items Editor WIP

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/game-dev-tools-megapack

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serene eagle Oct 26, 2019, 12:13 PM

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why do you use a checkbox for the editor save?

tribal fractal Oct 26, 2019, 12:13 PM

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to lazy to create my own widget for save 😛

serene eagle Oct 26, 2019, 12:13 PM

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SButton?

tribal fractal Oct 26, 2019, 12:13 PM

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I would need to create customization, add button, make lambda etc

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you can't add things like this using SPropertyTable

serene eagle Oct 26, 2019, 12:14 PM

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ahh ok

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didn't even use PropertyTable

tribal fractal Oct 26, 2019, 12:14 PM

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so, simple bool is working as well

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it's great if you want to edit lot of objects

serene eagle Oct 26, 2019, 12:15 PM

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looks great so far

tribal fractal Oct 26, 2019, 12:15 PM

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thanks!

pastel phoenix Oct 26, 2019, 1:49 PM

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work is great. but why you don't use database for savings, @tribal fractal ?

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it is typical task for some SQL

tribal fractal Oct 26, 2019, 1:50 PM

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what do you mean by database? my items have lots of functions OnSlotChanged, CanUseAction, UseAction etc - they are complicated and they need blueprints for custom implementation. (eg. cat in inventory, teleport scroll etc - wanted to have this in one place, quicker to work with items like that)

pastel phoenix Oct 26, 2019, 1:50 PM

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aah, ok

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👍🏼

tribal fractal Oct 27, 2019, 1:22 PM

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anyone know how Comment Node is actually saved? Can't find any seralization

tribal fractal Oct 27, 2019, 9:16 PM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cCKagKrBoE&feature=youtu.be learning EdGraphNodes. Created blueprint sticky note 😛

YouTube

Andrzej Koloska

Sticky Note for Blueprints

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/game-dev-tools-megapack

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split laurel Oct 27, 2019, 9:19 PM

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I only created edgraphnodes in my own editor so far: is it possible to just create a custom node and use it in normal blueprints?

tribal fractal Oct 27, 2019, 9:20 PM

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it's tricky. Basically it's K2Node which uses "comment" functionality to store data in note.

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But I think it's doable, just need some "data container" which can be linked to node.

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but yea - this node is created without custom editor, can be added in Blueprints (will check material editor 😄 )

split laurel Oct 27, 2019, 9:21 PM

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I see, cool :) good to know

tribal fractal Oct 27, 2019, 9:29 PM

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hmn, I can see that ZOrder is weird - my node is always above everything else. @split laurel had you the same issue?

split laurel Oct 27, 2019, 9:31 PM

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hmm can't say that rings any bells for me sadly

craggy holly Oct 28, 2019, 9:11 AM

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Anybody know which shader is used for the background blur widget?

quaint zealot Oct 28, 2019, 9:34 AM

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Pretty sure the blurring is handled separately from rendering the widget.

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Could be wrong but.....

craggy holly Oct 28, 2019, 9:36 AM

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Yeah found it eventually.. SlatePostProcessPixelShader.usf

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Trying to feed a mask texture into it

warm vault Oct 28, 2019, 5:26 PM

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Hey guys! I'm new here. I've started to touch some slate. The only "documentation" I have is the engine source. Do you have any other documentation where I can learn to use slate properly?

quaint zealot Oct 28, 2019, 5:30 PM

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Not really tbh

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UMG is where things are at for games

warm vault Oct 28, 2019, 5:32 PM

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That's what I thought. I'm using it to make our own EditorModes.

quaint zealot Oct 28, 2019, 5:37 PM

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Yeah it's the most common use case

serene eagle Oct 28, 2019, 6:06 PM

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there are some tutorials of Rama which are really nice for the beginning you can just google it. There is also this really little page by Epic which only provides some basics -> https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Programming/Slate/Widgets/index.html

Slate Widget Examples

Layout and widget complexities not demonstrated in the Slate Viewer Widget Gallery.

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There was also a header and cpp file inside engine source which was smth like a test class and showed some implementations of slate widgets but looking into source is mostly the best way to see implementation

quaint zealot Oct 28, 2019, 6:28 PM

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Some of Rama's stuff is wildly outdated though

serene eagle Oct 28, 2019, 7:32 PM

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sure but it can be quite helpful from time to time.

warm vault Oct 29, 2019, 8:18 AM

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Nice, did you remember what is the name of that class?

split laurel Oct 29, 2019, 2:25 PM

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Upon pressing a custom button in Unreal I want to bring a specific program into the foreground. Anyone know how something like that is done? The button itself is already done, I just need to know some class that lets me access different running processes

wide plaza Oct 30, 2019, 6:41 PM

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@tribal fractal it looks like you can add custom columns through the ColumnCustomizations argument but it looks like it requires a bunch of boilerplate

unkempt locust Oct 30, 2019, 9:19 PM

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whats the best way to include a WidgetBlueprint in a STab?

wide plaza Oct 30, 2019, 10:12 PM

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that's just using normal slots right? you can construct your UserWidget through CreateWidget, and in the slot you just pass MyUserWidget->TakeWidget()

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although i don't see a slate widget called STab

unkempt locust Oct 30, 2019, 10:25 PM

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I was trying to use EditorUtilityWidget

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Cant seem to figure it out properly

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SNew(SDockTab);

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sorry

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not STab

wide plaza Oct 30, 2019, 10:32 PM

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UEditorUtilityWidget derives from UUserWidget so you can TakeWidget() from it

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so it'd be something like SNew(SDockTab).Content(EditorUtilityWidget->TakeWidget())

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(i've not used SDockTab so this might not work at all)

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ah looks like it uses this declarative stuff

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so instead of an SNew in the slot there, you'd have the TakeWidget call

split laurel Oct 31, 2019, 1:33 PM

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looking for a way to update a single row in an assetview when a button is clicked, anyone know how to do this? I essentially just need to regenerate individual rows. While I could refresh the entire thing, that's not something I want to do since in a big project there might be many tens of thousand asset accesses at once so refreshing would take at least a couple seconds

unkempt locust Oct 31, 2019, 5:44 PM

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thanks @wide plaza

willow salmon Nov 1, 2019, 1:22 PM

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Can anyone tell me why I'm getting "unresolved external" for FEditorStyle::GetBrush even though I have EditorStyleSet.h included? I'm trying to define a custom widget in a plug-in and even copy pasting from UE's own classes verbatim results in that error

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I'll just substitute in an FSlateColorBrush for now I suppose

willow salmon Nov 1, 2019, 1:57 PM

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Actually, I think a plain gray works better than "Checkerbox" anyway -- so never mind

limpid atlas Nov 1, 2019, 2:43 PM

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@willow salmon You need to add "EditorStyle" to the [Public/Private]DependencyModuleNames in your module's .build.cs file

willow salmon Nov 1, 2019, 2:44 PM

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D'oh

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Ah yes, of course... Knew I was forgetting something xD

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I kind of pivoted to using solid colors for my slate elements anyhow, but thanks for tying up that loose end

willow salmon Nov 1, 2019, 4:28 PM

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New question:
How do I bind a SLATE_ATTRIBUTE to a getter with a parameter? I've been able to bind it to a lambda on the widget's user, that in turn calls a function that generates the value for the attribute. But I'd like to give that getter the size of the widget as a parameter.

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I notice that the TAttribute has some Bind* functions but I'm not sure if that's what I want or not

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I'll be able to provide some context once I get home to my PC

willow salmon Nov 1, 2019, 5:19 PM

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So basically what I'm saying is this works, but...

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I'm wondering how I could pass parameters to my GenerateDistributionGraphPoints method (I need to tell it what the actual size of the widget is, since it doesn't seem to match the desired size that I set -- and I don't want to do rescaling in the onPaint() method)

paper hamlet Nov 1, 2019, 6:58 PM

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ok this is day 1 of slate for me what is the difference between _Text() on line 45, Text on line 71 and BoundText on line 164 in STextBlock.h

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and if i wanted to call set text from another slate widget how would i go about doing that

rain heron Nov 2, 2019, 3:03 PM

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any good rescources how to make your own slate widget (draw your own)
f.e. what is ISlateRun and when do I need it? When I'm allowed to use MakeShapedText, MakeBox...

main hedge Nov 2, 2019, 4:37 PM

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there is no documentation on this stuff, you'll just have to look around at how other widgets are using it, maybe find some comments

willow salmon Nov 3, 2019, 5:19 AM

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Yeah it's mostly just an inordinate amount of reading and trial and error

split laurel Nov 3, 2019, 2:40 PM

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Wow, I was just on a wild goose chase because I was handing down a slate event through multiple widgets (because only the leaf widgets required it) and I had about 80 compile errors, supposedly because of it. Turns out it was something completely different, I was setting the text of a TextBlock via .Text(this, &FStyleCheckerTool::GetSelectionText) and while the precompiler didn't complain about that, it was the reason for not working, since the FStyleCheckerTool is a raw c++ class and doesn't have the AsShared member, which apparently is required if the delegate is created implicitl

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on that note, does anyone know if it is possible to have enums via Slate events as return value? It didn't work on first try so I changed it to just use ints instead and cast in between the functions

paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 3:04 PM

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how do i add children to a SScrollbox from an array

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i just can't get the syntax to work

main hedge Nov 3, 2019, 3:05 PM

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just call addslot

paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 3:22 PM

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except if i try to do SScrollBox::FSlot& = mainScrollBox.AddSlot() it claims that SScrollBox::FSlot::FSlot(const FSlot&) is deleted

main hedge Nov 3, 2019, 3:30 PM

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Box.AddSlot()
[
    Content
];

paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 3:43 PM

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ok thanks

paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 4:08 PM

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the slate syntax is hella confusing

main hedge Nov 3, 2019, 4:16 PM

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slate™*

quaint zealot Nov 3, 2019, 4:25 PM

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For what it's worth, you don't need to use the syntax

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Slot.DoStuff();```

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It's less a syntax than it is chaining multiple legal statements

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You can do this in non-Slate code too if you truly hate yourself

main hedge Nov 3, 2019, 4:27 PM

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there are clearly not enough templates involved here

paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 4:31 PM

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auto newSlot = mainScrollBox->AddSlot();

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that gives me

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Error (active) E1776 function "SScrollBox::FSlot::FSlot(const SScrollBox::FSlot &)" (declared implicitly) cannot be referenced -- it is a deleted function

main hedge Nov 3, 2019, 4:32 PM

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you would need auto&

paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 4:33 PM

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thank you

paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 4:49 PM

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3>U:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.23\Engine\Source\Runtime\SlateCore\Public\Widgets/SWidget.h(107): note: see declaration of 'FSlateControlledConstruction::operator new'
3>U:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.23\Engine\Source\Runtime\SlateCore\Public\Widgets/SWidget.h(93): note: see declaration of 'FSlateControlledConstruction'
3>U:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.23\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Templates/SharedPointer.h(194): note: while compiling class template member function 'TSharedRef<SScrollBox,0>::TSharedRef(void)'
3>U:/UnrealProjects/PluginCreator/Plugins/ModuleViewer/Source/ModuleViewer/Private/ModuleViewer.cpp(73): note: see reference to function template instantiation 'TSharedRef<SScrollBox,0>::TSharedRef(void)' being compiled
3>U:/UnrealProjects/PluginCreator/Plugins/ModuleViewer/Source/ModuleViewer/Private/ModuleViewer.cpp(73): note: see reference to class template instantiation 'TSharedRef<SScrollBox,0>' being compiled```

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TSharedRef<SScrollBox> mainScrollBox; this is the line in question

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what on earth is going on

main hedge Nov 3, 2019, 5:03 PM

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you want TSharedPtr or immediately initialize it with something

paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 5:03 PM

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i'm assigning it with SAssignNew

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further down

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is that wrong?

main hedge Nov 3, 2019, 5:03 PM

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TSharedRef can not be nullptr

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if you want to use TSharedRef you will have to use TSharedRef<SBlah> Blah = SNew(SBlah);

paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 5:04 PM

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oh ok then

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    SAssignNew(outTab, SDockTab)
        .TabRole(ETabRole::NomadTab)
        [
            TSharedRef<SScrollBox> mainScrollBox = SNew(SScrollBox)
            +SScrollBox::Slot()
            [
                SNew(STextBlock)
                .Text(WidgetText)
            ]
        ];

    TArray<FModuleStatus> allModules;
    FModuleManager::Get().QueryModules(allModules);

    for (FModuleStatus MS : allModules) {
        mainScrollBox->AddSlot()
            [
                SNew(SHorizontalBox)
                +SHorizontalBox::Slot()
                [
                    SNew(STextBlock)
                    .Text(MS.Name)
                ]
            ];
    }```

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yeah but then i can't use it further donw

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so i should u tsharedtpr?

main hedge Nov 3, 2019, 5:06 PM

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TSharedRef<SDockTab> outTab; this is also wrong

paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 5:07 PM

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why?

main hedge Nov 3, 2019, 5:07 PM

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paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 5:07 PM

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but OnPluginTabCreated returns TSharedRef<SDockTab>

main hedge Nov 3, 2019, 5:08 PM

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a TSharedRef can be constructed from a not-null TSharedPtr

paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 5:11 PM

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return TSharedPtr<SScrollBox, outTab>::ToSharedRef(); am i close

main hedge Nov 3, 2019, 5:15 PM

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you went so far from the light you can't even see the tunnel anymore

paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 5:16 PM

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ok yeah

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i found it

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just outTab.ToSharedRef()

main hedge Nov 3, 2019, 5:16 PM

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I think just

TSharedPtr<SDockTab> OutTab;
...
return OutTab;

already works

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been a while since I used these though

paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 5:17 PM

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do people normally used shared ptrs and refs or only when absolutely necessary

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and no it doesn't

main hedge Nov 3, 2019, 5:17 PM

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rip

paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 5:18 PM

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you can do ref to pointer not the otherway

main hedge Nov 3, 2019, 5:18 PM

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I never use them outside of slate

paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 5:18 PM

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ok

main hedge Nov 3, 2019, 5:18 PM

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dunno what other people are doing

paper hamlet Nov 3, 2019, 5:18 PM

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ok i just never really understood why we would use then out of slate

main hedge Nov 3, 2019, 5:19 PM

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can be useful when you have shared ownership of stuff

tame granite Nov 4, 2019, 5:46 PM

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anyone know where in the code software cursors are drawn? I'm having an issue that it shows up in vr even if I set GameViewportClient->SetUseSoftwareCursorWidgets(false) (which works to make it hardware-based in 2D; I'm guessing it is falling back to software cursor in vr anyway after seeing that a hardware cursor can't be rendered to an offscreen viewport or something)

tame granite Nov 4, 2019, 6:40 PM

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seems to happen in DrawWindowAndChildren

tame granite Nov 4, 2019, 10:46 PM

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it seems when you enter vr you would never get a new FCursorReply until the mouse was moved again, and the last widget would stick even with SetUseSoftwareCursorWidgets(false), since it only changes whether or not the reply will have a widget.

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what I added as a workaround is:

--- a/Engine/Source/Runtime/Slate/Public/Framework/Application/SlateApplication.h
+++ b/Engine/Source/Runtime/Slate/Public/Framework/Application/SlateApplication.h
@@ -1852,6 +1852,10 @@ private:
        /** The cursor widget and window to render that cursor for the current software cursor.*/
        TWeakPtr<SWindow> CursorWindowPtr;
        TWeakPtr<SWidget> CursorWidgetPtr;
+public:
+       void ClearSoftwareCursorWidget() { CursorWidgetPtr.Reset(); }
+private:
+```

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and call that once after calling UGameviewportClient::SetUseSoftwareCursorWidgets(false)

scenic sun Nov 5, 2019, 8:48 AM

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I think this is probably the best place to ask.... Are there known issues with html5 drag-and-drop in UE4's webview?

pastel phoenix Nov 5, 2019, 9:30 AM

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coordinates could be wrong, if web widget is not full screen

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at least in UMG web PKM on web widget gives wrong coordinates

paper hamlet Nov 6, 2019, 10:05 PM

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what do I actually need to put in synchronizeproperties

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I have a child of SCompoundWidget that has a SOverlay with 2 slots: 1 containing a SText and the other a SButton

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i'm trying to figure out how to get the text in the SText to update when i edit the text on my slate widget

main hedge Nov 6, 2019, 10:16 PM

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look at what UTextBlock has in there

paper hamlet Nov 7, 2019, 2:58 PM

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what does PROPERTY_BINDING_IMPLEMENTATION(FText, Text); do?

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like the macro it's self i see that it has a matching

{
    return PROPERTY_BINDING(FText, Text);
}```

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but i don't understand the macros

quaint zealot Nov 7, 2019, 2:59 PM

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I don't know about that, but you don't need this syntax to use properties

paper hamlet Nov 7, 2019, 3:00 PM

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ok i'm just curious what it does and why they used it

main hedge Nov 7, 2019, 3:04 PM

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these implement the horrifying umg property bindings

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just forget it ever existed and set your text property directly

paper hamlet Nov 7, 2019, 3:04 PM

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ok good to know

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in a sentence or two why are they so terrible

quaint zealot Nov 7, 2019, 3:05 PM

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They look like they're macros, for starters

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Reason enough....

main hedge Nov 7, 2019, 3:05 PM

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they run blueprint code every frame regardless of whether the widget is visible or not

magic rock Nov 7, 2019, 3:05 PM

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you can disable umg bindings so they don't even appear in editor

main hedge Nov 7, 2019, 3:05 PM

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yeah, did that long ago

magic rock Nov 7, 2019, 3:05 PM

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same

main hedge Nov 7, 2019, 3:06 PM

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with the extreme option where existing ones also stop compiling

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uncovered a few forgotten ones

paper hamlet Nov 7, 2019, 3:24 PM

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so if i drop the property binding then i don't even need the TDelegates do i? @main hedge

main hedge Nov 7, 2019, 3:24 PM

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wym

paper hamlet Nov 7, 2019, 3:24 PM

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like for text I have both an FText and a TDelegate<FText> do i still need the delegate or can i drop that if i don't use property binding

main hedge Nov 7, 2019, 3:25 PM

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the delegate is only for implementing the property binding

paper hamlet Nov 7, 2019, 3:25 PM

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ok so without property binding is does nothing

paper hamlet Nov 7, 2019, 5:27 PM

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        .OnHovered_UObject( this, &ThisClass::SlateHandleHovered )```

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what's the difference between these lines

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found on likes 56 and 57 of Button.cpp

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inrebuild widget

main hedge Nov 7, 2019, 5:28 PM

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probably the time at which it was written

paper hamlet Nov 7, 2019, 5:30 PM

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but functionally it's the same

willow salmon Nov 7, 2019, 7:33 PM

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Welp, finally got everything to work properly today -- let's hope I never have to touch slate again

main hedge Nov 7, 2019, 10:12 PM

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slate™*

pastel phoenix Nov 8, 2019, 7:35 AM

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slate is good

craggy holly Nov 8, 2019, 6:36 PM

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Anybody know what BeginPerInstanceBufferUpdateConst has become in 4.24?

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It's obviously been removed, but apparently with no deprecation warnings.

craggy holly Nov 8, 2019, 7:15 PM

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Urg. Thanks Obama.

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paper hamlet Nov 8, 2019, 9:18 PM

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so i'm still kinda lost about what needs to be set in synchronize properties

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and how that list differs from what gets set in rebuild widget

paper hamlet Nov 8, 2019, 10:54 PM

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how do i set my widgets icon in umg

low bluff Nov 9, 2019, 9:10 AM

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@paper hamlet You mean you have a slate widget you want to set an icon in via umg?

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If yes, theb you'd wrap the swidegt with a uwidget and expose the texture variable via that. There are tons of examples due to all native widgets in umg doing that

eternal wave Nov 10, 2019, 11:20 AM

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how do simulate virtual mouse by joystick?
I mean I wanna send low level input to slate

urban bloom Nov 10, 2019, 7:52 PM

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@eternal wave check out Rama's implementation. There may be more recent ones now but he had a mouse to joystick function in his plugin

jolly prawn Nov 11, 2019, 2:57 PM

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Is there an array widget that live updates? I know I can add slots programatically through c++ but my widget will still be outdated if I add object while my widget is visible. Only solution I know of is to manually add and remove slots from your widget while adding and removing items to your array. I'd prefer to not have to do this though, if possible.

urban bloom Nov 11, 2019, 3:02 PM

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@jolly prawn is your array living in a detail panel?

jolly prawn Nov 11, 2019, 3:03 PM

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No it's not

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But maybe I can start doing that

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If it helps

urban bloom Nov 11, 2019, 3:04 PM

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im not sure in your case, but detail panels can be refreshed for such purposes when creating custom views (such as one that might hold an array that can be edited in the detail panel)

jolly prawn Nov 11, 2019, 3:05 PM

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I want to show my selected actors in this dropdown

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urban bloom Nov 11, 2019, 3:06 PM

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Oh that looks like the Class Viewer on a toolbar

jolly prawn Nov 11, 2019, 3:06 PM

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I spawned it with MakeActorPickerWithMenu

urban bloom Nov 11, 2019, 3:07 PM

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yeah it defaults to class picker iirc

jolly prawn Nov 11, 2019, 3:07 PM

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I just wanted something nice to select actors with

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you know what, scratch that. I'll do it some other way (i.e. no dropdowns)

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Sorry for taking your time

urban bloom Nov 11, 2019, 3:08 PM

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im bored as hell m8. you did me a favour

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but yeah, thats not a great solution for multi-selection either. it only returns a single selection I think. dont quote me on that

paper hamlet Nov 11, 2019, 3:48 PM

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@low bluff sorry no i mean these icons

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magic rock Nov 12, 2019, 8:57 AM

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@paper hamlet I personally have never added my own custom icons to widget palette, but look at the FUMGStyle::Create(): this is how all icons for widgets are created and registered

urban bloom Nov 12, 2019, 9:01 AM

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I've only done that with detail panels myself. Im sure if you use the Widget Reflector you can see exactly what is being used, then just dive into the source

jolly prawn Nov 12, 2019, 3:53 PM

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I have my custom button here. When I press Play I want to disable/gray it out. Is that possible and how do I do it?

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urban bloom Nov 12, 2019, 3:54 PM

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just get access to the element within the Toolbar and set it's state to disabled usually. Some buttons might differ but standard ones should have it

jolly prawn Nov 12, 2019, 3:55 PM

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oh ok there's a disabled state

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ty

paper hamlet Nov 12, 2019, 4:04 PM

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is there a way to call get slot in c++

craggy holly Nov 12, 2019, 4:22 PM

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For UMG?

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Just access directly

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Slot

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Because encapsulation is for losers

paper hamlet Nov 12, 2019, 4:23 PM

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for slate

craggy holly Nov 12, 2019, 4:23 PM

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In that case not unless it's already been defined and stored somewhere IIRC

paper hamlet Nov 12, 2019, 4:23 PM

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like i want to set the paddingof a slot in rebuild

craggy holly Nov 12, 2019, 4:23 PM

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slate doesn't have any type safety

paper hamlet Nov 12, 2019, 4:23 PM

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ok

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so i would need to store the slot

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got it

craggy holly Nov 12, 2019, 4:24 PM

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I think so

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Not 100% sure

paper hamlet Nov 12, 2019, 4:24 PM

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👍

craggy holly Nov 12, 2019, 4:24 PM

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In UMG at least slots are discrete objects, I'm not sure if they are in Slate too

fallen hamlet Nov 12, 2019, 10:55 PM

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Hi, I've a strange blinking on a loading screen with slate. Basically I created an animation from an array of images, incrementing the image number every tick. When I test from the editor the image sequence play perfectly, but on the shipping it seems that the correct images are alternated with some white frames. Anyone can help?

undone geyser Nov 13, 2019, 12:00 AM

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anyone know how to make a button to select a folder in the Content Browser?

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like SDirectoryPicker but inside unreal not in the File System

novel geyser Nov 13, 2019, 4:44 AM

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in order to access source via the widget reflector, do you need to have built the engine from source?

spring frost Nov 13, 2019, 4:48 AM

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No, you do need the Source code though. There is an option to download the engine source along with Launcher versions of the engine now.

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The links to the CPP definitions that you see in the Editor, may require a C++ project though.

novel geyser Nov 13, 2019, 5:13 AM

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strange, when clicking source, a blank file opens in vs

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definitely on a C++ project

paper hamlet Nov 13, 2019, 3:01 PM

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is it best practice to make a slate widget if i'm just making templates for UMG or is just donig a UWidget and building it in rebuild widget

urban bloom Nov 13, 2019, 3:05 PM

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if its for UMG, you extend from UUserWidget as far as I have read.

paper hamlet Nov 13, 2019, 3:05 PM

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except i'm building templates. it's not for directly displaying on the screen

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i have a field that has a textblock, a spacer, and an editabletextblock. I want the ability to just drag and drop it into userwidgets

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but not the ability to display it directly

urban bloom Nov 13, 2019, 3:07 PM

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like a sub-widget?

paper hamlet Nov 13, 2019, 3:07 PM

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kinda yeah

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just to save time making the same 3 widget stack over and over

urban bloom Nov 13, 2019, 3:08 PM

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ahh I get you . any reason you wouldn't want it displaying if it was used by itself?

paper hamlet Nov 13, 2019, 3:08 PM

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just not the intended use

novel geyser Nov 13, 2019, 3:18 PM

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Still having issues opening source - defaulting to some D drive installation?

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which naturally doesn't exist

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guessing I just need the engine source

urban bloom Nov 13, 2019, 3:20 PM

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hard to open source without the source I should think

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you can read it on the web tho. Its all there on github too even if its a pain to traverse

novel geyser Nov 13, 2019, 3:24 PM

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Moderator here suggested I don't require the engine source and I've located the file in:

C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.23\Engine\Source\Editor\PropertyEditor\Private\UserInterface\PropertyEditor

Just the first bit of the path is wrong.. I wonder if the ue devs typically work from D:/build/++ue4/sync

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seems strange it wouldn't default to the ue4 install path

urban bloom Nov 13, 2019, 3:35 PM

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yeah that seems to be a defaulting path that appears often

novel geyser Nov 13, 2019, 3:36 PM

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makes sense

urban bloom Nov 13, 2019, 3:38 PM

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looks like a depot style path to me

graceful trench Nov 13, 2019, 9:05 PM

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Any idea why SetFont would not be exposed on SSpinBox? Just oversight or some reason I do not see? (I just created a PR that creates that function and it does seem to work without issues)

urban bloom Nov 14, 2019, 6:14 AM

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@graceful trench from what I can see its pass by args. In that the font only changes when construct happens or the sub-elements .font slate attribute is set directly. There are two textboxes to deal so perhaps a dual purpose function was felt to be too much for something that would read it in from args when constructed anyway.

graceful trench Nov 14, 2019, 10:25 AM

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Well for editor widget or any user created widget there is reasonable assumption that you might want to change the font in preconstruct to fit that particular window style(talking from UMG standpoint obviously). Anyway, the PR is out there, it is not a breaking change just exposes the ability to change the font on those two textboxes

quaint zealot Nov 16, 2019, 12:54 PM

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Anyone has experience with sharing material instances between game thread and movie player thread ?

tame granite Nov 18, 2019, 9:18 PM

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is there any delegate for when focuses changes? wanting to add some logging for debug

solar venture Nov 18, 2019, 10:34 PM

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NavigationConfig has one, I use it to hack around UE4's tendency to set focus on the viewport and break my gamepad

magic rock Nov 19, 2019, 10:04 AM

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@tame granite enable LogSlateDebugger log category (log LogSlateDebugger Log), It already logs all kinds of slate events. If you want some kind of custom logic, check FConsoleSlateDebugger and see how it binds to delegates

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"all kinds" includes focus change

amber palm Nov 19, 2019, 5:52 PM

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👋 is this the place for editor customization questions using slate?

tame granite Nov 19, 2019, 6:32 PM

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@magic rock thanks, seemed I also needed to SlateDebugger.Start and now I'm getting everything

amber palm Nov 19, 2019, 7:50 PM

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can anyone point me in the right direction for how to get the value of a customized property?

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I'm customizing the display of a struct, and have an array of enums that i need to read

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and modify

limpid atlas Nov 19, 2019, 8:12 PM

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@amber palm The property handle has a method called AccessRawDataor something like that. You need to use that and cast the pointer.

amber palm Nov 19, 2019, 8:17 PM

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@limpid atlas AccessRawData gives me a TArray<const void*>, how can I cast that to an unreal struct?

limpid atlas Nov 19, 2019, 8:18 PM

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Each entry is a struct. Property displays can be displaying more than one underlying object at a time.

amber palm Nov 19, 2019, 8:19 PM

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right

limpid atlas Nov 19, 2019, 8:19 PM

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So your customization would likely need to check if it's one, or more than one, and display accordingly.

amber palm Nov 19, 2019, 8:19 PM

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would you be okay with guiding me a little? I'm fumbling in the dark here with all the Unreal specificity

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so far I've managed to retrieve a handle to the specific UPROPERTY I want to access. However, this UPROPERTY is of the type TArray<TEnumAsByte<ECustomEnum>>

limpid atlas Nov 19, 2019, 8:24 PM

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Arrays are awkward to access from customizations, I can't remember offhand how to do it.

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What do you want to do with the array?

amber palm Nov 19, 2019, 8:25 PM

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basically it's acting as a lookup map. I want to render a button for each entry in the array and have that button toggle the value in that entry

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to basically set whether or not that cell is "Occupied" or no. But having a 9x9 array in the default view is not great for usability, so I'm trying to turn it into a clickable grid

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I've already looked through what's on the wiki, but the actual specifics of customizing the property isn't really covered

limpid atlas Nov 19, 2019, 8:30 PM

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You can use GetChildHandle to get the handle of an element at a given index I think. And then call Get/SetValue on that.

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But honestly if the array lives in a struct, I suspect it would be easier to just use the above approach to get a pointer to the struct.

amber palm Nov 19, 2019, 8:31 PM

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right, that was the original plan

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but since I can't unreal, it's proving rather difficult

limpid atlas Nov 19, 2019, 8:32 PM

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Just be aware that trying to anything like this will take about 100x longer than you expect, because the whole system is a total mess.

amber palm Nov 19, 2019, 8:32 PM

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do you have any alternate approach you'd recommend?

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I feel like this should be a fairly simple thing to do. I mean I'm just making a grid of buttons and setting a value from it

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UObject* Object = NULL;
    StructPropertyHandle->GetValue(Object);
    FRoomConfig* s = Cast<FRoomConfig>(Object);

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right now I got this together, but it doesn't compile since FRoomConfig is a struct

limpid atlas Nov 19, 2019, 8:34 PM

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Yeah that's my point. Things that should be simple to do generally aren't. ;)

amber palm Nov 19, 2019, 8:34 PM

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😰

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oh well, I'll take it as a learning opportunity

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shame that it's soooo sparsely documented

limpid atlas Nov 19, 2019, 8:35 PM

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Don't use GetValue in that way, that's for when your property handle is referring to an object property.

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Since here it's clearly a struct, you need to use AccessRawData. And then a regular static_cast to your struct type.

amber palm Nov 19, 2019, 8:39 PM

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I must be doing it wrong, it's not letting me cast to my struct

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TArray<void*> data;
    StructPropertyHandle->AccessRawData(data);
    FRoomConfig* s = static_cast<FRoomConfig>(data.GetData());

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AccessRawData won't return anything but a TArray of void*

limpid atlas Nov 19, 2019, 8:41 PM

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Check the array length is 1, if not just do nothing for the moment. If it's 1:
static_cast<const FRoomConfig*>(data[0])

amber palm Nov 19, 2019, 8:41 PM

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ohhh right

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@limpid atlas okay so in the inspector i can see that data.Num() is 1, but my if statement doesn't result to true anyway

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if I skip that check I manage to get the data into my struct though, so I guess that's good?

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but still weird why the comparison fails

limpid atlas Nov 19, 2019, 9:04 PM

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How did you write it?

amber palm Nov 19, 2019, 9:05 PM

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TArray<void*> data;
    StructPropertyHandle->AccessRawData(data);
    const FRoomConfig* s = static_cast<const FRoomConfig*>(data[0]);

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and with the if:

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TArray<void*> data;
StructPropertyHandle->AccessRawData(data);
if (data.Num() == 1) {
    const FRoomConfig* s = static_cast<const FRoomConfig*>(data[0]);
}

limpid atlas Nov 19, 2019, 9:08 PM

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Should work, looks right to me.

amber palm Nov 19, 2019, 9:09 PM

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yeah but it won't pass into that if statement, might be compiler shenanigans

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I wasn't actually using the struct later

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which brings me to my next issue, how in the heck am I supposed to be able to use a string in a Slate Text attribute?

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whatever I try it just keeps spitting errors at me

limpid atlas Nov 19, 2019, 9:10 PM

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Right, if you're not building in Debug config then the compiler would optimize the code away

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FText::FromString(s)

amber palm Nov 19, 2019, 9:11 PM

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oh

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well I feel like a fool

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where do you get this information from? Just previous knowledge?

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and also thanks a ton for this help, it's invaluable

limpid atlas Nov 19, 2019, 9:16 PM

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From experience yeah, but fundamentally, from reading the engine source code a lot.

amber palm Nov 19, 2019, 9:17 PM

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gotcha. I'm trying to get better at that

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been a long while since c++, a lot to get back into

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it's just completely unforgiving

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now, as the punchline, how do I set the value when I know what I want?

limpid atlas Nov 19, 2019, 9:19 PM

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There should be a version of AccessRawData that gives you regular (not const) pointers. So you can modify it directly through that.

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Afterwards I think you're supposed to call NotifyPostChange and NotifyFinishedChangingProperties() on the struct property handle.

amber palm Nov 19, 2019, 9:29 PM

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riight

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okay

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AHA! It worked!

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amazing, thank you so much

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😄 😄 😄

limpid atlas Nov 19, 2019, 10:15 PM

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Nice, no worries

mild oracle Nov 20, 2019, 12:20 AM

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Has anyone used MenuAnchors? Is there a way to get them to automatically close when the player clicks anywhere outside them?

ivory adder Nov 20, 2019, 9:27 AM

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I use them

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hmm. no i don't use them:)

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but i tried to use them

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there is some slate function that closes all opened menu, i used for workaround

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FSlateApplication::Get().DismissAllMenus();

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i still use this workaround even for other type of menu

amber palm Nov 23, 2019, 2:11 PM

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So I'm back with a minor issue, but it's bugging me. I've managed, thanks to @limpid atlas, to set up property customization. However somewhere in the process it seems I the category title of my property?

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the property of the struct looks like this

UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite, Category = "Room")
TArray<TEnumAsByte<ELayoutCell>> cells;

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but the property in the editor doesn't seem to pick it up

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void FRoomConfigCustomization::CustomizeHeader(TSharedRef<class IPropertyHandle> StructPropertyHandle, FDetailWidgetRow & HeaderRow, IPropertyTypeCustomizationUtils & StructCustomizationUtils)
{
...
    HeaderRow.NameContent()
        [
            StructPropertyHandle->CreatePropertyNameWidget(FText::FromString("Cells"))
        ].ValueContent().MinDesiredWidth(600.0f)[
            btnList
        ];
}

urban bloom Nov 23, 2019, 8:57 PM

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Anyone ever made an SClass Picker work with an SComboBox ie. You have the dropdown visible, when you click it, the ClassPicker shows, rather than the usual ComboBox dropdown. Im sure I've seen it in the engine before, but thought I'd ask before I go digging.

strong topaz Nov 25, 2019, 7:39 PM

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Why use Slate instead of UMG?

lyric otter Nov 25, 2019, 7:45 PM

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@urban bloom : I think whenever I have done a class/actor picker ive used a details view since it does alot of the work for you

quaint zealot Nov 25, 2019, 7:48 PM

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@strong topaz Slate's fine if you don't need quick artist iteration

strong topaz Nov 25, 2019, 7:52 PM

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^ great, it seems like Slate almost feels like QT Designer

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more code based

urban bloom Nov 25, 2019, 9:37 PM

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@lyric otter im using it in a detail panel, but I don't want either of the views. I want something that looks like a combobox, but when you click, instead of the sharedptr's to textblocks, I want it to have a shared pointer to a class viewer. I guess I have to roll my own on this one but I could have sworn I've seen it before, otherwise where did I get the mental image? (semi-photographic. I remember what I can be arse to :p )

lyric otter Nov 25, 2019, 11:24 PM

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@urban bloom : Yes, in the past I have used a custom uobject that contains a UPROPERTY with class type I want select box for. Then I create an DetailsView (using FPropertyEditorModel.CreateDetailView) to generate a widget with the appropriate pickers

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I know there is a way to create pickers directly but that seems to be the way with the least overhead afaik

urban bloom Nov 25, 2019, 11:27 PM

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Im fine to the point of creating a regular picker, but I don't want to be adding new functionality if I don't need to. Thanks I'll take a look into that.

lyric otter Nov 25, 2019, 11:33 PM

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example.h: UCLASS() class UMyContainer : public UObject { GENERATED_BODY() public: UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere) TLazyObjectPtr<AActor> ActorToPick; }
example.cpp:

void SMyWidgetClass::Construct(const FArguments& InArgs)
{
    UMyContainer* Container = NewObject<UMyObjectContainer>();
    FPropertyEditorModule& PropertyEditorModule =  FModuleManager::Get().GetModuleChecked<FPropertyEditorModule>("PropertyEditor");
        FDetailsViewArgs DetailsViewArgs(false, false, false, FDetailsViewArgs::HideNameArea, true);
    DetailsView =         PropertyEditorModule.CreateDetailView(DetailsViewArgs);
    DetailsView->SetObject(Container);

    ChildSlot
    [
        DetailsView.ToSharedRef()
    ];
}```

urban bloom Nov 25, 2019, 11:36 PM

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I see, nice. I'm currently working in the Widget Detail Panel right now. But as you can see, putting a normal class picker in looks bad.

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I already have it setup as a ComboBox(String) and its functional and looks fine

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Something kept telling me to so it as a Class Picker tho. One of them things.

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I guess I just want it to be a combo anyway. The only effective point of the class picker is to see unloaded classes and have the search and view options. But I can add that anyway if I think it needs it. Thanks for the snippet. It's opened my eyes a little 🙂

pastel phoenix Nov 26, 2019, 9:24 AM

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some things just imposible to do in UMG, @strong topaz , because lack of functionality. for example - in UMG web browser you can't handle title changing, in slate SWebBrowser you can

strong topaz Nov 26, 2019, 10:07 AM

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nice thats good to know 😄

pastel basin Nov 26, 2019, 11:14 PM

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I have a question about UV in UMG widget. Maybe it's slate related. You can see the top is cropped, how to get full screen UV in widget texture?

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median basalt Nov 29, 2019, 7:58 PM

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It is not cropped it looks like you drawing title bar over it

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use widget reflector to debug and verify it is actually cropped

maiden talon Dec 5, 2019, 12:05 PM

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How do I spawn a slate window with tabs if I'm not editing an asset

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I always used InitAssetEditor before

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I guess I could just use a dummy asset to make it easier

solar venture Dec 12, 2019, 7:43 PM

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I might as well ask here: I'm doing work with slate loading screens, and I'm at a point where it's only updating texture streaming for the loading screen when I move my mouse

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I can't figure out where Slate handles updating texture streaming, if anyone has any ideas let me know

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Ah nevermind slate is going to sleep so stops trying to redraw the window because it thinks nothing changed

pale nacelle Dec 17, 2019, 2:28 AM

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kinda lost there warning: 'condition' is deprecated: Binding a delegate with a const object pointer and non-const function is deprecated. so what's the new way of doing it?

main hedge Dec 17, 2019, 2:42 AM

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get a non-const object pointer or use const_cast

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following this change they added like 100+ const_cast in various places br_big_brain

grizzled quartz Dec 19, 2019, 11:08 PM

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I can't find anything about this in forums, maybe it isn't possible. I am writing a custom edit mode and i'd like to drag a blueprint reference into it (a created blueprint object). given that i'm creating the buttons in slate (SNew(SButton)) etc, is there one of those for object reference?

pale nacelle Dec 20, 2019, 10:57 PM

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So since when SAssignNew() needs 14 arguments???

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Ah, right... since I don't know how to write Construct properly :/.

grizzled quartz Dec 21, 2019, 12:15 AM

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a full day later i found that SDropTarget is what i'm looking for, however I get a linker error when I try to use it.
I have included SDropTarget.h, added EditorWidgets and EditorStyle to build.cs, and forward declared FDragDropOperation.

Intellisense (if accurate..) says no instance of function template matches argument list?

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pale nacelle Dec 21, 2019, 7:39 AM

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@grizzled quartz that's because SDropTarget is part of EditorWidgets, not Slate

grizzled quartz Dec 21, 2019, 6:56 PM

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@pale nacelle Source code has it using the slate macros just like this, with SNew(SDropTarget). I also have editor widgets in the build.cs, not sure what is missing?

neat smelt Dec 27, 2019, 12:14 PM

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Hey guys! Does anyone know how can I simulate press of my action bindings, axis bindings from c++
I am trying to send fake press when I press button in slate
I know a way of sending gamepad keys using OnControllerButtonPressed where you select button that you want to send. but is there a way to send bindings by name directly

warm vault Dec 27, 2019, 3:19 PM

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@neat smelt is it important that it calls the input event or could you just use a custom event that gets called?

neat smelt Dec 27, 2019, 4:18 PM

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@warm vault yeah it is quite important to connect all the pieces of my game code to single] place of action bindings

mild oracle Dec 31, 2019, 4:58 AM

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I'm kind of sick of how TArray<T> is presented as a weird list of properties in the details inspector. Does anyone know of an easy way to change it to be displayed as a table?

warm vault Dec 31, 2019, 6:34 PM

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So I had been having issues with loading my textures a while back and I think I figured out then that using UTexture2D is pretty much depricated because you had to do like texture:// or something. Now I should make a SlateBrush as an asset in the content browser and then load the asset and get it's brush by accessing that member right?

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I'm still waiting on my guy to give me the main menu textures so I haven't done much else

pale nacelle Jan 1, 2020, 12:25 AM

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no you can still load texture directly from the source code

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something like should work fine cpp static ConstructorHelpers::FObjectFinder<UTexture2D> textureObj (TEXT("/Game/Path/To/Texture"));

mild oracle Jan 1, 2020, 5:16 AM

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@warm vault Using an FSlateBrush asset over a Texture2D asset will let you define stuff like 9-slicing

urban bloom Jan 2, 2020, 8:54 PM

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Anyone give me a quick heads up on getting access to the FUICommandList on a node's right click context? Prepared to dig around, just asking in case someone saves me time 🙂

hard hatch Jan 6, 2020, 9:12 PM

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Anyone got a clue as to what could be happening here?

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/941974/crashes-in-fullscreen-mode-with-424-update.html

Getting lots of seemingly slate related errors.

low bluff Jan 8, 2020, 10:42 PM

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@hard hatch Do you have the debug symbols installed? Lots of UnknownFunction stuff. Hard to debug without any callstack.
Also the formatting of the log you posted is horrible. Check if you can edit that to have more linebreaks.

hard hatch Jan 8, 2020, 10:44 PM

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I don't know what that is sorry ^^ Not a programmer

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And yeah, it got buggered after copy pasting from notepad, I'll try to fix it up!

low bluff Jan 8, 2020, 10:46 PM

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When you install the Engine through the Launcher, you have options to choose.

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You can still choose these. One of that is Editor Debugging Symbols or something like that.

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People often skip them cause they are a few gigs big.

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But if the engine crashes, you lose most of the information from the callstack.

hard hatch Jan 8, 2020, 10:46 PM

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Ah yes I most definitely do not have them then, as I'm responsible for the art only.

low bluff Jan 8, 2020, 10:47 PM

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Then I would suggest trying to find reproduction steps and having your programmer crash with the same problem :D

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Or to install the symbols

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In the Launcher Library where you Engine Versions are listed, next to the Launch Button of the Engine is a drop down arrow menu.
In there you find the Options menu.

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And then select the Editor symbols for debugging

hard hatch Jan 8, 2020, 10:48 PM

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Hmm cool, he didn't really have a clue what the cause could be so I figured it'd be better to post here! I'll give him a poke about getting a more detailed crash log!

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Thanks, I'll install that!

low bluff Jan 8, 2020, 10:49 PM

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Would def help to have more info.

hard hatch Jan 8, 2020, 10:49 PM

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OOOF 23 gigs

low bluff Jan 8, 2020, 10:49 PM

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:P yeah

hard hatch Jan 8, 2020, 10:49 PM

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Jeeesus what are these lol

low bluff Jan 8, 2020, 10:50 PM

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Files with information about all sorts of classes, functions, varaibles of the engine code

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anyway, g2g now. Make sure to update the post and maybe ask here again

hard hatch Jan 8, 2020, 10:51 PM

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Aaah right! Alright I'll tell my programmer to fetch these, see if I can get something more detailed out of the engine, thanks a ton for the help I would've never guessed to do this.

hard hatch Jan 9, 2020, 1:34 PM

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Nothing from my programmer yet, but I've managed to isolate the issue to my minimap widget, if I remove it all the problems are gone.

hard hatch Jan 9, 2020, 1:55 PM

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So unhooking these three nodes has completely removed the hitching and crashing, however all that these do is, well, play some umg animations

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However I can preview the animations in my timeline with no issue

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The most bizarre thing is that it only crashes in fullscreen or standalone, if playing in editor without having fullscreened it, the animations and game runs just fine.

plush ruin Jan 9, 2020, 7:16 PM

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Does any body know how to add an external window as panel in game like standalone but linked with game session

urban bloom Jan 9, 2020, 11:54 PM

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@plush ruin FViewport has functions to create new windows, but if you want something even more external you can go direct to the Window.h class

plush ruin Jan 10, 2020, 6:59 PM

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@urban bloom thanks, then i will give a shot to FViewport actually i want to do kinda umg transfer to addictional panel

hexed plank Jan 11, 2020, 5:58 AM

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What's better for UMG, drawing a line in slate? Or drawing one in a material?

urban bloom Jan 12, 2020, 2:41 AM

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@hexed plank consider materials have natural overhead and bloat for such a thing. I would go with the more direct route but it depends on usage

weary eagle Jan 13, 2020, 11:42 PM

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Anyone ever use the WidgetCarousel in UMG? I'm trying to figure out if it has some functionality I'm looking for.

Here's the documentation on the class: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/API/Runtime/WidgetCarousel/index.html

WidgetCarousel

obtuse stag Jan 14, 2020, 5:40 PM

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Hello, there I search a way to display a struct property inside an editor module, sadly this didn't work for struct :

FPropertyEditorModule& PropertyEditorModule = FModuleManager::GetModuleChecked<FPropertyEditorModule>("PropertyEditor");
TSharedPtr<ISinglePropertyView> SinglePropView = PropertyEditorModule.CreateSingleProperty(MyObject, GET_MEMBER_NAME_CHECKED(UMyObject, MyProp), InitParams);

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also I tried CreateStructureDetailView but it didn't display my vector in one line as I wish

misty robin Jan 14, 2020, 10:15 PM

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Any Slate related profiling tools available? like stat commands? Slate kicks in and starts ruining my FPS after I start looking around in the viewport for a few seconds

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And these don't seem to be terribly specific as to what was called

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quaint zealot Jan 14, 2020, 10:17 PM

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Is it in editor ?

misty robin Jan 14, 2020, 10:19 PM

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Yes which is the part I don't understand, because I dont think I exec my laggy slates yet heh

quaint zealot Jan 14, 2020, 10:19 PM

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If you're in editor you're profiling the entire editor too

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Run in standalone

misty robin Jan 14, 2020, 10:24 PM

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Yeah I had ran things in standalone before and had the same issue

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Has to be something I'm calling, it would just be nice to see it, instead of the general Slate 'RenderThread: Present Time' function
It's like, yeah I know it's taking 21 ms, now show me the receipts lol

quaint zealot Jan 14, 2020, 10:26 PM

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Sure that's not the GPU ?

misty robin Jan 14, 2020, 10:27 PM

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Well I think it's on the gpu thread yeah

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oh nvm, so the render thead could have been stalled then, waiting for gpu?

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looks like there is a slate stat group 👍

quaint zealot Jan 14, 2020, 10:34 PM

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What does "stat unit" tell you

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Outside editor

misty robin Jan 14, 2020, 10:40 PM

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Nothing out of the ordinary, the issue was fixed when I enabled the stat group slatememory

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Wierd issue, may have nothing to due with slate, AI appreciate your help, I should probably just keep observing this for now

quaint zealot Jan 14, 2020, 10:42 PM

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Ok !

eternal wave Jan 22, 2020, 7:25 PM

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is that only my VS or its just normal because autocompletion and intellisence don't work in my slate file at all.

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its too annoying

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I have VAX btw

main hedge Jan 22, 2020, 7:42 PM

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usually it works at least somewhat

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it would be interesting to see if resharper can handle slate stuff and accurately suggest stuff

pastel phoenix Jan 22, 2020, 7:51 PM

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not works, as in all lambdas too

eternal wave Jan 23, 2020, 9:00 AM

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is there any way to inherit FAargument from the parent widget ?

wary steeple Jan 23, 2020, 7:09 PM

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Would anyone here have some advice or be able to point me to where I can find more info on what I'm trying to do? Not sure where to start.

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I'm trying to add an option to the drop down menu of the CreateEvent node that will allow me to create a new function with the correct signature of the event to which I'm registering

main hedge Jan 23, 2020, 7:18 PM

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easy! simply update your engine to 4.24:

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wary steeple Jan 23, 2020, 9:10 PM

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omg.... thats fantastic

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haha ty

astral shard Jan 24, 2020, 9:13 PM

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When I open my inventory widget in-game I get a crash with these top three lines:

UE4Editor_SlateCore!FSlateBrush::SetResourceObject() [d:\build\++ue4\sync\engine\source\runtime\slatecore\private\styling\slatebrush.cpp:112]
UE4Editor_UMG!UWidgetBlueprintLibrary::MakeBrushFromTexture() [d:\build\++ue4\sync\engine\source\runtime\umg\private\widgetblueprintlibrary.cpp:415]
UE4Editor_UMG!UWidgetBlueprintLibrary::execMakeBrushFromTexture() [d:\build\++ue4\sync\engine\source\runtime\umg\public\blueprint\widgetblueprintlibrary.h:29]

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What could be causing an issue with SetResourceObject()?

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This all works in the editor version...

quaint zealot Jan 24, 2020, 9:22 PM

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Maybe the resource isn't packaged

astral shard Jan 24, 2020, 9:26 PM

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How would I do that?

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All my textures are located in Content

lethal kite Jan 25, 2020, 9:29 AM

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if it has a strong ref to it its packaged

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if it has a soft one, then you need to make sure it gets packaged manually

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additional folders to cook

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in addition to that it could be a dangling pointer (if you loaded it, put the ref to a weak pointer, then didn't immediately assign it), or you could had made an error in multithreading

quaint zealot Jan 25, 2020, 11:03 AM

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Anyone knows how I can disable or negate DPI scaling on a particular widget ?

quaint zealot Jan 25, 2020, 11:31 AM

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Okay, SScaleBox did the trick.

maiden musk Jan 25, 2020, 10:10 PM

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Hi all, is there a good resource to start learning slate, and what would be the main benefits of going slate over plain umg

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I have never used anything in slate, tried to study it but it seems really daunting

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I have read the official epic page about it but all I could think of is that I could do all of the examples easier with umg

quaint zealot Jan 25, 2020, 10:15 PM

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UMG is very much the recommended approach

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It's definitely what actually gets documentation, support and features

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Slate is just the engine's basic layer below that

ancient wigeon Jan 27, 2020, 7:00 PM

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@quaint zealot We needed to negate DPI scaling for half of the UI, we ended up creating custom dpi scaler widget which does that and applies different scaling

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Does anybody know why there is no DPI scaling rule based on screen ratio?

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None of out of box provided DPI scaling rules offer solution which would keep full screen content always visible at any resolution

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It can be easily achieved with custom rule. I just wonder why it is not already there and made as default

main hedge Jan 27, 2020, 7:39 PM

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that would be easily achieved with a scale box rather than the dpi scaling system

ancient wigeon Jan 27, 2020, 7:41 PM

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From what I heard from @silent patrol , scale box should not be used to scale UI to different resolutions

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Wrapping whole UI and every widget with scale box is not really a convenient solution

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Scalebox is there for some special cases like scaling text to some button

main hedge Jan 27, 2020, 7:43 PM

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dunno if it was intended to be used that way, but it works perfectly

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we have the dpi scaler set up so the screen height is always 1080 slate units, then a root scale box in the hud that scales down dialogs that are too wide

ancient wigeon Jan 27, 2020, 7:45 PM

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Yes, that's right. I used to do exactly same thing, however not using scale box can be cleaner and even more performant as DPI scaling is applied automatically to all widgets anyways. I am trying to find reference on that.

main hedge Jan 27, 2020, 7:46 PM

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the dpi scaler itself is a slate widget

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which does pretty much the same thing a scale box does

ancient wigeon Jan 27, 2020, 7:50 PM

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Yes, it is automatically used as root widget for every UI and it reads UI Scaling Rules from Project Settings. That is the reason why there should be usually no need to use root scale boxes. However, Screen Ratio based rule is missing. Gladly, it can be very easily added inheriting from custom dpi rule, selecting that rule in project settings and overriding dpi calc function in C++.

urban bloom Jan 27, 2020, 10:53 PM

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@ancient wigeon there is a DPI section for widgets. You have a Canvas Panel as your Outer widget container as usual, and it adjusts according to the DPI Curve. You can add any odd resolutions there too.

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In the bottom corner of a widget blueprint viewport, there is a Cog icon. Click that and it takes you to the DPI curve.

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Looks like there is a spot for a custom rule class there now too. Never noticed that before

ancient wigeon Jan 28, 2020, 9:23 AM

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@urban bloom Yes, I know. I just find it weird that there is no way to choose there Scale To Fit (or aspect ratio) rule. Basically rule which would do the exactly same thing as Scale Box, so you would not need to mess with any curve and your game will work for any resolution.

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It is good especially for mobile development because there are dozens of different resolutions

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Anyways, I fixed it with the custom rule, thank you guys

warm vault Jan 30, 2020, 9:52 AM

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Anyone know how to change the actual fill progress bar shape to something like a rounded rectanlge? I can change the background to one using material, but not the actual bar that moves.
Thanks

crystal socket Jan 31, 2020, 9:09 PM

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Hey guys, I'm new to slate, and I'm trying to make a widget that will animate during loading screens, but when i'm using a material and assigning it to a slate brush and passing that into an SImage (and then passing that into the loading screen through the movie player loading screen properties) it's not animating. The animation is done in the material, via the "time" input parameter, which is never being updated. Am I missing something, or is there something I have to do to get the animation to work?

main hedge Jan 31, 2020, 9:33 PM

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probably time doesn't get updated since the engine is not ticking

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SThrobber moves when you put it on a loading screen, so maybe investigate how that is updating its animation

narrow terrace Jan 31, 2020, 10:15 PM

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The throbber starts a curve and just pulls from that time and as it increases

main hedge Jan 31, 2020, 10:19 PM

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guess you could do the same except send the value from the curve to a material parameter

eternal wave Feb 1, 2020, 9:35 AM

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could someone give me an example popup code ?

torn crystal Feb 1, 2020, 12:39 PM

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@crystal socket just in case you didnt know, you can set a UMG widget as the loading screen widget using TakeWidget() on the UWidget you created

mortal edge Feb 4, 2020, 4:08 AM

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is there a way to open a new window and attach a ui screen to it?

dense yarrow Feb 4, 2020, 8:17 AM

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Has anyone encountered problems with rich text image decorator?

main hedge Feb 4, 2020, 2:59 PM

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br_egg why is it not possible to override FReply::bIsHandled after it has been constructed

quaint zealot Feb 4, 2020, 3:01 PM

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Usually no need to

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Just make a new one

eternal wave Feb 4, 2020, 3:23 PM

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how do I clear all children of an SWidgetSwitcher ?

quaint zealot Feb 4, 2020, 3:23 PM

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Does it have ClearChildren ?

eternal wave Feb 4, 2020, 3:56 PM

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@quaint zealot no

mortal edge Feb 5, 2020, 11:56 PM

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How do I go about using SWindow to create a new window.
I've got this

TSharedRef<SWindow> NewWindow = SNew(SWindow)
        .Title(WindowTitle)
        .ScreenPosition(WindowPosition)
        .ClientSize(FVector2D(ScreenWidth, ScreenHeight))
        .AutoCenter(EAutoCenter::PreferredWorkArea)
        .UseOSWindowBorder(UseOsWindowBorder)
        .SaneWindowPlacement(false)
        .SizingRule(ESizingRule::UserSized);

but I can't find any function to show() it
I'm also trying to make it a blueprint function

mortal edge Feb 6, 2020, 2:07 AM

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Anyone have a clue?

mortal edge Feb 6, 2020, 5:01 AM

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bump 😛

mortal edge Feb 6, 2020, 6:58 AM

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FINALLY!

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I solved it

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sort of, lol

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Implementation in character bp for testing

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the header file

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the function declaration in the header file

UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable, meta = (DisplayName = "Open New Window", Keywords = "GalacticBlueprintLibrary Open New Window"), Category = "GalacticBlueprintLibraryTesting")
        static void OpenNewWindow(FString WindowTitle, int ScreenWidth, int ScreenHeight, FVector2D WindowPosition, bool UseOsWindowBorder);

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and then the source file,

void UGalacticBlueprintLibraryBPLibrary::OpenNewWindow(FString WindowTitle, int ScreenWidth, int ScreenHeight, FVector2D WindowPosition, bool UseOsWindowBorder)
{
    TSharedRef<SWindow> NewWindow = SNew(SWindow)
        .Title(FText::FromString("WindowTitle"))
        .ScreenPosition(WindowPosition)
        .ClientSize(FVector2D(ScreenWidth, ScreenHeight))
        .AutoCenter(EAutoCenter::PreferredWorkArea)
        .UseOSWindowBorder(UseOsWindowBorder)
        .SaneWindowPlacement(false)
        .SizingRule(ESizingRule::UserSized);

        FSlateApplication::Get().AddWindow(NewWindow);
}

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and then the result( this only works when you launch in standalone mode not in the viewport or pie window)

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low bluff Feb 6, 2020, 9:53 AM

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What's the goal of this? (:

quaint zealot Feb 6, 2020, 9:54 AM

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I'd love to see a plugin for easy multiplatform handling of additional fullscreen window for UI

mortal edge Feb 6, 2020, 9:59 AM

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that's basically what I'm working on

deft wren Feb 6, 2020, 10:43 AM

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I'm brand new to slate and trying to make an Editor Mode. I'm going with the template plugin and trying to figure out what's what. When prototyping some UI, are you meant to write this sort of stuff: https://i.imgur.com/3N5C9ln.png or is there a way do this through the UMG editor or something similar, and use the asset/generate the code?

Imgur

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I don't necessarily mind typing the code out, it'll be slower, but I just want to make sure I'd be doing the right thing 🙂

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(I have no special constraints to my UI either, just mostly static stuff and perhaps a dynamic list or two, no high frequency creation/destruction of elements like the pin mentions)

signal pulsar Feb 7, 2020, 3:03 AM

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Any ideas why this is only working on right mouse button and not left?

 FReply UwInventorySlot::NativeOnMouseButtonDown(const FGeometry& InGeometry, const FPointerEvent& InMouseEvent)
FReply Local_Reply = Super::OnMouseButtonDown(InGeometry, InMouseEvent).NativeReply;
UE_LOG(LogTemp, Warning, TEXT("WHYWONTYOUWORK"))"

warm vault Feb 7, 2020, 3:05 AM

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@signal pulsar Is it possible your action mapping in the input section of your project settings sets the wrong mouse button?

signal pulsar Feb 7, 2020, 3:07 AM

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Nope 😦

warm vault Feb 7, 2020, 3:12 AM

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😦

signal pulsar Feb 8, 2020, 12:57 AM

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This function is being called on the widget the other other widget is being dropped on to. The code is firing but the widget just wont move.

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well it wont stay where i drop it rather

low bluff Feb 8, 2020, 9:21 AM

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iirc, just dropping a Widget somewhere won't add it as a child.

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@signal pulsar

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You'll have to do that manually in the Drop Call, based on the payload etc.

runic patrol Feb 8, 2020, 3:59 PM

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Any idea why the call SNew(SRichInlineButton, Brush, TextStyle, Width, Height, Stretch); works with
void Construct(const FArguments& InArgs, const FSlateBrush* Brush, const FTextBlockStyle& TextStyle, TOptional<int32> Width, TOptional<int32> Height, EStretch::Type Stretch)
but as soon as i add another parameter (for example FText) it doesnt compile anymore
RequiredArgs::MakeRequiredArgs [...] function doesn't accept 6 arguments

split laurel Feb 8, 2020, 8:41 PM

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is SRichInlineButton a class created by yourself?

runic patrol Feb 8, 2020, 10:14 PM

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Yea, extends SCompoundWidget

runic patrol Feb 8, 2020, 10:54 PM

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Got it now by using Slate Attrbutes

eternal wave Feb 9, 2020, 9:26 AM

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how do I inherit FArguments ? I have a widget derived from SBorder I want it to have all construction arguments of the SBorder

split laurel Feb 9, 2020, 5:16 PM

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typically you don't want to derive widgets from other widgets, use composition. So inherit from SCompoundWidget and add an SBorder in there

mild oracle Feb 11, 2020, 3:47 AM

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@eternal wave SButton inherits from SBorder, check out how they do it

eternal wave Feb 11, 2020, 6:05 PM

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why my event is not fired when I do one right click on the SBorder? but its fired if I double click. thats weird.
SNew(SBorder) .OnMouseButtonUp(this, &SMMPlay_Relations::OnRowMouseUp)[ SNew(STextBlock).Text(FText::FromString(..)) ];

split gorge Feb 14, 2020, 7:58 AM

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Hey guys, is there any documentation on this stuff or do I need trough source code?

narrow terrace Feb 14, 2020, 6:48 PM

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There really isn't.... I do suggest looking at Nick(Slate God) Darnell's loading screen plugin as it has a fantastic example of just showing an image(all of this setup the same way you would in UMG) and a throbber. Because it's so simple you can break it apart and figure out how to make your own slate widgets. Just kind of looking at other people's stuff actually helps with figuring out how slate works, and how powerful it is...

eternal wave Feb 15, 2020, 12:49 PM

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can someone elaborate the following comment from slate.
'This event does not bubble.'

main hedge Feb 15, 2020, 2:45 PM

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"bubble" is used for things like mouse events

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for example, if you click the ui, the following will happen:

slate will call "OnPreviewMouseButtonDown" on every widget on the path from the root to the one that was clicked, in like a top-down order. if anything returns handled, stop. (this is called a "tunneling event")
slate will call "OnMouseButtonDown" on every widget on the path from the one that was clicked to the root, in bottom-up order. if anything returns handled, stop. (this is called a "bubbling event")

vast steeple Feb 17, 2020, 11:39 AM

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hey

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I'm trying to create a button that has a textblock inside it, that can be used with UMG

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I created a new class and Inherited from UButton, and it seems like it retuns a shared SWidget pointer, is it possible to add a child widget to this?

ivory tiger Feb 18, 2020, 3:37 PM

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Pls Help! How to add elements to canvas and set location of child

graceful trench Feb 26, 2020, 2:00 PM

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Question anybody knows how to create a table like thing, or knows of a place where it already exists?(So I can look at how it is done)

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Never mind... DeviceManager module... 🙂

loud ember Mar 2, 2020, 1:44 AM

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Im trying to create a custom details panel. How would I make a heading like this under a category. I have everything set up and have been able to make buttons and text input but I can't find any documentation on this

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Figured it out. gotta use .WholeRowContent()

halcyon grove Mar 4, 2020, 3:26 PM

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Hello, all. I updated to 4.24.3 (from 4.21.3) and now my Hardware Cursor is broken on a cooked build. It now displays as four squares, colored magenta, cyan, black and yellow. This was working fine in 4.21. Any idea what changed or what settings I need to fix up? Thanks! Images to follow

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Should look like the first one

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actually looks like the second one

leaden tusk Mar 4, 2020, 9:46 PM

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I'm looking for examples of alignment, and resizing for slate. Trying to make SButton wrap around the size of its text.

leaden tusk Mar 4, 2020, 10:54 PM

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I figured it out with AutoWidth and AutoHeight but need to surround the button with SVerticalBox and SHorizontalBox

last cloud Mar 5, 2020, 1:48 AM

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@halcyon grove amd gpu ?

halcyon grove Mar 5, 2020, 3:32 AM

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Intel. On macOS

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Oh gpu

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Let me check

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Radeon Pro Vega

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Was working fine on 4.21

last cloud Mar 5, 2020, 10:08 AM

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@halcyon grove soz so late to respond but that image shows classic amd gpu cursor glitch. something must have broke in later ue4 versions almost always solved with a gpu driver update

craggy holly Mar 5, 2020, 2:13 PM

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Is there any way to debug the routing of click/input events in slate?

halcyon grove Mar 5, 2020, 3:57 PM

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@last cloud Thanks for the info! I won’t worry about it for now then.

royal geode Mar 5, 2020, 5:20 PM

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@craggy holly lemme know if there is 😮

craggy holly Mar 5, 2020, 5:26 PM

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Didn't find anything 😦

ocean mason Mar 6, 2020, 8:09 AM

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@craggy holly other than IInputProcessor and intercept activity i don't think. https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/API/Runtime/Slate/Framework/Application/IInputProcessor/index.html

IInputProcessor

Interface for a Slate Input Handler

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you'll have to register it like: FSlateApplication::Get().RegisterInputPreProcessor

ocean mason Mar 6, 2020, 8:29 AM

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you just log the actions and return false to leave it unhandled by the custom processor

ocean mason Mar 6, 2020, 8:48 AM

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once you intercept the KeyEvent or Pointer event you have also something like https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/API/Runtime/SlateCore/Input/FInputEvent/GetEventPath/index.html

FInputEvent::GetEventPath

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i guess for this you don't need the input processor stuff

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/API/Runtime/SlateCore/Layout/FWidgetPath/index.html

FWidgetPath

A widget path is a vertical slice through the tree.

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A widget path is a vertical slice through the tree. The canonical form for widget paths is "leafmost last". The top-level window always resides at index 0. A widget path also contains a reference to a top-level SWindow that contains all the widgets in the path. The window is needed for its ability to determine its own geometry, from which the geometries of the rest of the widget can be determined.

faint sentinel Mar 7, 2020, 4:40 PM

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On a scale from 0 to impossible, how hard is it to recreate something like this? An array of objects that can be added/edited from the editor. Each object can be of different class, and has different settings when expanded (such as Datasmith in this image).

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split laurel Mar 8, 2020, 10:29 AM

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@faint sentinel 2 or 3 maybe? It uses the Instanced specifier (or EditInline, there are a couple specifiers related to that, I'm not sure which ones you need), so instead of adding an object that existed externally to the array it gets created as you choose what type it should have (probably inheriting from a common data asset class), once you chose the class an object gets instantiated for which you can configure the data

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this is default ue4 functionality and not specific to slate

faint sentinel Mar 8, 2020, 11:10 AM

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Thanks! Yeah, I figured it out. I was initially following a tutorial for adding a module for editor customization, but it turned out to be completely unnecessary. UPROPERTY/UCLASS keywords did the trick!

split laurel Mar 8, 2020, 12:05 PM

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yup :) there is some magic that UBT allows you to do, but a lot of it is just doing as you go because often those kinds of things aren't really covered much. You just discover them at some point or you dont

mild oracle Mar 12, 2020, 11:22 PM

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Is there a simple way to force a redraw of all slate widgets? I'm changing a default font at run-time and want to force a redraw

mild oracle Mar 12, 2020, 11:44 PM

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I've tried calling Invalidate(EInvalidateWidget::All) on a root widget but it doesn't seem to force a redraw

bleak tapir Mar 13, 2020, 1:45 PM

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There any easy way to create a single property editor from the property inside a struct? Sort of like FPropertyEditorModule::CreateSingleProperty but for struct? I know there's CreateStructureDetailView but that creates a view for all properties.

stuck jewel Mar 15, 2020, 3:59 AM

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I'm experimenting and trying to apply a Property Customization to an instanced class field which is stored in an array in the details pane. If I use HeaderRow.NameContent and .ValueContent with the default CreatePropertyNameWidget() and CreatePropertyValueWidget() it works fine, but it duplicates the array's dropdown arrow which is annoying. If I use HeaderRow.WholeRowContent and manually split it, I can get rid of the array's arrow so that works fine, but I can't make the split point match up with the parent widget columns. Would anyone have any advice how to tackle either problem (either remove the duplicate array controls, or get the splitter column widths to match the parent widget or something)?
https://i.gyazo.com/e7935e29bea9312fda8ca263b0da79b6.mp4
https://i.gyazo.com/f121e2b1917b33c5c4b3f339d82be703.mp4

▶ Play video

stuck jewel Mar 15, 2020, 4:43 AM

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hurrdurr that was easy. CreatePropertyValueWidget(bool bDisplayDefaultPropertyButtons = true) setting the default arg to false stops creation of the array element dropdown arrow, making the first option workable

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oh great, that somehow breaks construction of children properties with customized widgets. should have known epic would have thrown a wrench in the spokes somewhere for me

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PS - XY problem - the actual problem I'm trying to solve is to streamline my details pane by removing all of the annoying extra "category" foldouts that UE inserts for instanced classes. i.e. https://i.gyazo.com/4e8bcc0c22d873fd208e514ea75a462a.png

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================= https://i.gyazo.com/eebd977168348e19fb92d40f54b218e3.png

stuck jewel Mar 15, 2020, 4:41 PM

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well that was a freaking treat. it all works fine (custom property drawers of children included) if I don't ever call CreatePropertyNameWidget on the instanced class property. dear slate: go f a duck. sincerely - hojo

mild oracle Mar 16, 2020, 1:26 AM

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@stuck jewel do you have a snippet showing how you solved that?

stuck jewel Mar 16, 2020, 4:40 AM

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@mild oracle hiding the instanced class's category foldouts? in the class customization (using a property customization not a class customization) I iterate through all the child properties and add them to the drawer. not sure if there's a better way to do it or not but it seems to work fine

void FPropertyCustomization_SkepsiInstancedClassBase::CustomizeChildren(TSharedRef<class IPropertyHandle> StructPropertyHandle, class IDetailChildrenBuilder& StructBuilder, IPropertyTypeCustomizationUtils& StructCustomizationUtils)
{
    uint32 NumClasses;
    StructPropertyHandle->GetNumChildren(NumClasses);

    for (uint32 i = 0; i < NumClasses; i++)
    {
        TSharedRef<IPropertyHandle> ClassRef = StructPropertyHandle->GetChildHandle(i).ToSharedRef();

        uint32 NumCategories;
        ClassRef->GetNumChildren(NumCategories);

        // Iterate backward through categories because the engine always lists inherited children categories first, and I want them to be listed last (show base class properties first)
        for (int32 j = NumCategories - 1; j >= 0; j--)
        {
            TSharedRef<IPropertyHandle> CategoryRef = ClassRef->GetChildHandle(j).ToSharedRef();

            uint32 NumProperties;
            CategoryRef->GetNumChildren(NumProperties);

            for (uint32 k = 0; k < NumProperties; k++)
            {
                TSharedRef<IPropertyHandle> PropertyRef = CategoryRef->GetChildHandle(k).ToSharedRef();
                StructBuilder.AddProperty(PropertyRef);
            }
        }
    }
}```

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(or rather - it seems to work fine except it randomly refuses to draw some of those children properties if they have customizations themselves. which is what I was getting butthurt about above)

ancient wigeon Mar 17, 2020, 4:55 PM

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Hey guys

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I have two questions about profiler output

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Why is glSwapBuffers() taking so long? It should just swap buffers, shouldnt it?

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Is stat unit command's Draw field showing RenderThread time or only FDrawSceneCommand time

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deft wren Mar 19, 2020, 1:38 PM

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Why are my widgets bunched up? https://puu.sh/Fmpi1/c674b1f747.png

  VBox (Align Left, Auto Height)
    HBox (FillWidth)
      Button (FillWidth)
      Button (FillWidth)
      Checkbox (FillWidth)

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I can't set my vertical box or borderto fillwidth (which is what I'd want I expect?)

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(Also on a tangent this doesn't compile and I've no idea why, same syntax works with my buttons:

SNew(SCheckBox)
.OnCheckStateChanged_Static(&FSecmaVREdModeToolkit::OnModeChange)```)

main hedge Mar 19, 2020, 2:18 PM

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it's because your vbox isn't fill width

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I think

deft wren Mar 19, 2020, 2:21 PM

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@main hedge Yeah that's what I'd think too (that or the border), but there's no fillwidth method on VBox

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Just FillHeight

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As if they naturally fill the width (which could make sense I guess since their role is only to split vertically)

main hedge Mar 19, 2020, 2:22 PM

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huh

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no I mean the slot that the vbox is in

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widgets themselves don't fill things it's all on the slots

deft wren Mar 19, 2020, 2:23 PM

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Yeah neither the vbox or the slot have a fillwidth method

main hedge Mar 19, 2020, 2:23 PM

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that doesn't seem right

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are you sure it's not just autocomplete playing a joke on you

deft wren Mar 19, 2020, 2:24 PM

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This is the compiler error (not autocomplete): error C2039: 'FillWidth': is not a member of 'SVerticalBox::FSlot'

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I've somehow managed to make VSCode's autocomplete accurate in most cases 😄

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Conceptually this doesn't surprise me that much, I'd assume a vertical slot to take all the width it can (the rest of the width would just be wasted otherwise, since no other widget could go in it)

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.FillWidth(1.) is what you want right?

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It says it's a ratio, so that's what I've put everywhere for my buttons

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(I tried much higher values too, without any impact)

main hedge Mar 19, 2020, 2:33 PM

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maybe first play with this layout in umg until you get it to do what you want and then just make the same thing with slate

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it's much easier to do that when you can see all the layout options rather than having to guess about slate syntax lol

deft wren Mar 19, 2020, 2:34 PM

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Yeah I guess so, I'll try that

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You wouldn't have any clue about the delegate issue by any chance?

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Because this one stomps me

main hedge Mar 19, 2020, 2:34 PM

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maybe your function has the wrong signature?

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you didn't show what the actual error is with that

deft wren Mar 19, 2020, 2:37 PM

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@main hedge Ah sorry, this is the error:

[1/4] Module.SecmaVR.cpp
  C:\UE_4.24\Engine\Source\Runtime\Slate\Public\Widgets/Input/SCheckBox.h(68): error C2664: 'TBaseDelegate<void,ECheckBoxState> TBaseDelegate<TTypeWrapper<void>,ECheckBoxState>::CreateStatic<>(void (__cdecl *)(ECheckBoxState))': cannot convert argument 1 from 'StaticFuncPtr' to 'void (__cdecl *)(ECheckBoxState)'
          with
          [
              StaticFuncPtr=FReply (__cdecl *)(ECheckBoxState)
          ]
  C:\UE_4.24\Engine\Source\Runtime\Slate\Public\Widgets/Input/SCheckBox.h(68): note: This conversion requires a reinterpret_cast, a C-style cast or function-style cast
  C:/Users/Cafe/Documents/Unreal Projects/SecmaVRTemplate/Plugins/SecmaVR/Source/SecmaVR/Private/SecmaVREdModeToolkit.cpp(327): note: see reference to function template instantiation 'SCheckBox::FArguments::WidgetArgsType &SCheckBox::FArguments::OnCheckStateChanged_Static<FReply(__cdecl *)(ECheckBoxState)>(StaticFuncPtr)' being compiled
          with
          [
              StaticFuncPtr=FReply (__cdecl *)(ECheckBoxState)
          ]```

And the signature: `static FReply OnModeChange(ECheckBoxState State);`

I couldn't find documentation on the subject, but all the code using this seems to do something similar

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(Error is pretty verbose sorry)

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And that's how I attempt to use it: .OnCheckStateChanged_Static(FSecmaVREdModeToolkit::OnModeChange)

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(I've tried the nonstatic version and I've tried with an &, no success)

main hedge Mar 19, 2020, 2:48 PM

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your function is supposed to be void

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cannot convert argument 1 from 'StaticFuncPtr' to 'void (__cdecl *)(ECheckBoxState)'
with
[
    StaticFuncPtr=FReply (__cdecl *)(ECheckBoxState)
]

deft wren Mar 19, 2020, 3:10 PM

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@main hedge God dammit, that's it!

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Thanks ❤️ I always struggle to read those errors, I thought it expected an undescript "StaticFuncPtr" and I gave it the other one

jolly prawn Mar 20, 2020, 11:09 AM

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Can I remove this ugly line that covers my input value? The input box is made using SNumericEntryBox

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proud harness Mar 20, 2020, 12:14 PM

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Hey guys anyone tried to use menu anchor with input mode being game and ui? I've had the menu anchor working with ui only but i switched to game and ui, then it stopped working

split laurel Mar 20, 2020, 3:22 PM

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anyone know how to get rid of the grey box of a button? I inserted an image in the button's content but want the grey box gone

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nvm found some button styles in SlateEditorStyle.cpp

royal geode Mar 21, 2020, 7:39 AM

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Yeah it's in the button style 🙂

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@jolly prawn change the brush used by the spin box style

jolly prawn Mar 21, 2020, 10:36 AM

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Do you have a small example? I thought I tried changing the spin box style but I probably did it incorrectly.

royal geode Mar 21, 2020, 7:03 PM

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Not any examples I'm allowed to share no @jolly prawn

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Maybe show what you did

delicate ridge Mar 23, 2020, 9:02 PM

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Hey guys can anyone point me in the right direction on making a simple Background Image in slate that stretches the image to fit and not fill? I'm not able to use SScaleBox for some reason..

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I'm trying to make a loading screen image that scales correctly but so far I haven't been able to make SScaleBox get recognized by the engine

fickle garnet Mar 25, 2020, 5:54 AM

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Hi! So im kind of a noob at UE4 and im having a ui problem where whenever I try to drag in any element like a progress bar it gives me a 🚫 and wont let me drag it in

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also sorry if this isnt the right section idk what slate or umg is

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<@&213101288538374145>

spring frost Mar 25, 2020, 6:06 AM

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@fickle garnet Please dont ping Moderators unless there is an issue with the Server or its Members.

fickle garnet Mar 25, 2020, 6:06 AM

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ok sorry

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who should i ask about my question

spring frost Mar 25, 2020, 6:07 AM

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Ask your question in the appropriate channel. Wait for a response, someone with an answer will respond.

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If you need an answer immediately, consider posting a job listing in #looking-for-talent

fickle garnet Mar 25, 2020, 6:07 AM

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ok

spring frost Mar 25, 2020, 6:08 AM

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This is a community run server, no one here is paid to answer questions.

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Please keep that in mind.

fickle garnet Mar 25, 2020, 6:08 AM

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okie dokie

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nevermind i fixed my issue

rugged brook Mar 26, 2020, 11:33 AM

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Whats's the difference the between SlateWidget and SlateWidgetStyle classes?

royal geode Mar 27, 2020, 4:51 PM

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@rugged brook A style is used to configure a widget

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eg if you want to change the background of a button etc

fierce lark Mar 28, 2020, 4:28 PM

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Is anyone able to recommend some great Slate (for Editor) resources beyond the Epic documentation?

shrewd finch Mar 29, 2020, 7:51 AM

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hey uhh.. quick optimization question.. im looking through my profiler data from a VR session and this "slate operations FindPathToWidget" is really cloggin things... its a blueprint project mostly..

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how do i know what that's coming from? im kind of blindly just disabling properties in different widgets trying to find the one that's causing that

main hedge Mar 29, 2020, 12:16 PM

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are you in the editor? by default, slate runs in slow path mode in the editor, but in packaged this overhead does not exist

inner sable Mar 30, 2020, 1:26 PM

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Hi, little question : is there a way to definitely disable tool tips in UE ? I always do that through Output log, and each time I restart my session, tool tips are back again.

quaint zealot Apr 2, 2020, 12:22 PM

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Does anyone know how to permanently disable mouse cursor while in UI input mode ?

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Not just hide it, but disable it

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i.e. no hover events or clicks

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@violet olive looks like you had this issue

violet olive Apr 2, 2020, 12:42 PM

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@quaint zealot yes, but I use UMG not slate, and I haven't managed to find a solution yet

quaint zealot Apr 2, 2020, 12:43 PM

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Well, I found one

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Basically, there is no way to remove the cursor in UI only mode

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So you have to use game only instead

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Once you're in game only, you can disable input on player and pawn

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And it kinda works all around

violet olive Apr 2, 2020, 1:03 PM

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ouch... well, I liked the built-in UI grid navigation in Unreal... but I didn't like that it ate the grid navigation input for the player controller... (it sabotaged my attempts so far at detecting which last input device was used)

quaint zealot Apr 2, 2020, 1:04 PM

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Nav works for me, though I'll admit I customized it

jolly patrol Apr 4, 2020, 1:07 PM

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Instead of UMG/Slate I’m trying to use the web browser widget + JavaScript/CSS to make an UI. Has anyone else seen/done this? I know Coherent make something similar but it is ££

quaint zealot Apr 4, 2020, 1:12 PM

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Well, UMG/Slate have a Web widget

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/UMG/UserGuide/WidgetTypeReference/WebBrowser/index.html

Web Browser

Overview of using the Web Browser widget to create in-game web browsing functionality.

pastel phoenix Apr 4, 2020, 1:25 PM

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and how do you make callbacks in UE, @jolly patrol

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ui elements is not only for visual, they should have some functionality

quaint zealot Apr 4, 2020, 1:28 PM

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You get a callback on URL changes, so presumably you can work with that

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And IIRC you can have some communications too

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The SWebBrowser is what the launcher uses for Web views presumably

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📎 unknown.png

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Of course I'd recommend going UMG for the deep engine integration

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I worked with Web tech for game UI twice, a shitshow twice

jolly patrol Apr 4, 2020, 1:33 PM

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Ok cool will keep in mind, I was using the UMG web widget to make a full screen transparent browser in my game and then JS/CSS. But yes call backs will be tricky, getting vars from other blueprints/c++ 🙂 Though primarily I’m using the UI to gather financial market & news feeds and overlay them on the game screen. If that makes any sense. Thank you !

pastel phoenix Apr 4, 2020, 1:41 PM

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UMG web browser have no event on url change, only Slate web browser have it

quaint zealot Apr 4, 2020, 1:43 PM

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I'd look into the BindUObject stuff

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That seems exposed to UMG

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There's a full tutorial here : https://programmer.help/blogs/ue4-ue4-embedded-web-and-communication-with-web.html

[UE4] UE4 embedded web and communication with Web

UE4 is embedded in the Web and UE4 to Web communication. I use ue4.22.3, and take UE4 embedded in ECharts and communicating with ECharts as an example. 1, Custom WebBrowser Uwebbrowser is a plug-in class for browsing the Web provided by UE4. In order to communicate with the W...

jolly patrol Apr 4, 2020, 1:44 PM

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Thanks guys

leaden goblet Apr 9, 2020, 3:24 AM

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Sup guys.
So i am trying slate out

            SNew(SVerticalBox)
            + SVerticalBox::Slot().HAlign(HAlign_Center).VAlign(VAlign_Center)
            [
                SNew(SButton).Text(LOCTEXT("ButtonTest1", "This worked, nice."))
            ]
            + SVerticalBox::Slot().HAlign(HAlign_Center).VAlign(VAlign_Center)
            [
                SNew(SButton).Text(LOCTEXT("ButtonTest2", ":thinking:"))
            ]
        ];  ```
Is there a way i can like add 2 buttons in the same box?
that way i can align them in the center together (for example)

royal geode Apr 9, 2020, 5:01 AM

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@leaden goblet wdym same box

leaden goblet Apr 9, 2020, 5:02 AM

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I guess it does not matter, i guess its just how it works.

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Also, how do I add functionality to the button?

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i saw there is .OnClicked() but its confusing

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@royal geode

royal geode Apr 9, 2020, 5:03 AM

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Programming/Slate/index.html

Slate UI Framework

Cross-platform user interface framework for creating tool and in-game UIs.

leaden goblet Apr 9, 2020, 5:04 AM

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Alright, thanks.

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I will try to read it.

scarlet wagon Apr 11, 2020, 9:31 AM

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@jolly patrol we tried coherent for a while

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and it is no worth considering not mention money

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yes you get nice HTML + CSS+ JavaScript

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but then you get half-working editor and have to create even most basic widgets from scratch

jolly patrol Apr 11, 2020, 11:35 AM

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@scarlet wagon thanks for the heads up !

spring island Apr 13, 2020, 3:47 PM

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hey could somone give an example of how you make a widget show up? currently im trying to make it show in a HUD class ( BeginPlay() ) linked to the GameMode class, but nothing happends Cpp //in STextWidget void TextWidget::Construct(const FArguments& InArgs) { //code for the widget... } //in HUD TSharedPtr<class TextWidget> TextWidgetPtr; ///BeginPlay()... GEngine->GameViewport->AddViewportWidgetContent(SNew(SWeakWidget).PossiblyNullContent(TextWidgetPtr)); //in GameMode HUDClass = AHeadsUpDisplay::StaticClass(); Is this the correct way or am i supposed to call the construct function somewhere?

main hedge Apr 13, 2020, 3:50 PM

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well you never made an instance of your widget

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you gotta use SNew(STextWidget) somewhere to do that

spring island Apr 13, 2020, 3:57 PM

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i tried adding SNew(STextWidget); above the GEngine->... but nothing changed

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oh i figured it out, you have to TSharedPtr<class TextWidget> TextWidgetPtr = SNew(STextWidget);

severe quest Apr 14, 2020, 6:37 PM

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Anyone know of some good resources for getting started in slate? I'm trying to create a dynamic ui system.

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Also, does anyone know how to/if you can create a data table from a slate widget style?

quaint zealot Apr 14, 2020, 6:50 PM

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UMG is where things are at to start with

severe quest Apr 14, 2020, 6:58 PM

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I'm not a newcomer to ue4, just to slate.

quaint zealot Apr 14, 2020, 7:03 PM

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Well, if you really want to use Slate and not UMG, there really isn't much more documentation than the engine source

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You can check our source code (Helium Rain on Github) for a Slate game

severe quest Apr 14, 2020, 7:04 PM

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thx, ill look into it

quaint zealot Apr 14, 2020, 7:04 PM

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Not exactly the best resource though

severe quest Apr 14, 2020, 7:04 PM

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unfortunate how some things have so much documentation, and others less than a page

quaint zealot Apr 14, 2020, 7:07 PM

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Slate is not really part of the engine API

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UMG is the recommended tech

split laurel Apr 15, 2020, 10:23 AM

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It's pretty much mandatory for proper tools Dev though. But I guess they are thinking if you are gonna do custom tooling you'll need to find your way around the code base anyways lol

quaint zealot Apr 15, 2020, 10:45 AM

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Yeah if you're modifying the engine to add new features, the idea of a game API isn't really a thing

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If you're doing game UI though, it's clear that Epic doesn't consider Slate a solution

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They've never done a Slate UI in one of their games

split laurel Apr 16, 2020, 9:01 AM

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Oh yeah for game UI definitely

royal geode Apr 17, 2020, 4:14 AM

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Programming/Slate/index.html

Slate UI Framework

Cross-platform user interface framework for creating tool and in-game UIs.

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more than enough docs I say 😛

turbid mantle Apr 18, 2020, 7:47 PM

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I have an issue, I'm learning how to use Slate and to start of I'm trying to make a crosshair in the middle of my screen. I've already made a main menu that works so I kind of know the basics but now I just cant figure out how to place a .png image in the middle of the screen. This is what I got so far:

#include "SCrosshairWidget.h"

void SCrosshairWidget::Construct(const FArguments& InArgs)
{
    CrosshairImagePath = FPaths::ProjectContentDir() / TEXT("Slate/crosshair.png");
    CrosshairImage = new FSlateImageBrush(FName(*CrosshairImagePath), FVector2D(16, 16));

    UE_LOG(LogTemp, Warning, TEXT("%s"), *CrosshairImagePath)

    ChildSlot[
        SNew(SOverlay)
        + SOverlay::Slot().HAlign(HAlign_Center).VAlign(VAlign_Center)[
            SNew(SImage).Image(CrosshairImage)
        ]
    ];
}

turbid mantle Apr 18, 2020, 8:21 PM

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I've found the solution:

CrosshairTexture = LoadObject<UTexture2D>(nullptr, TEXT("/Game/Slate/crosshair.crosshair"), nullptr, LOAD_None, nullptr);

CrosshairImage= new FSlateBrush();
CrosshairImage->SetImageSize(FVector2D(16, 16));
CrosshairImage->SetResourceObject(CrosshairTexture);

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I created a texture from the crosshair.png and referenced that.

spring island Apr 19, 2020, 2:18 PM

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i cant figure out how to set size and location for my widget, this is what i have so far: ChildSlot [ SNew(SOverlay) .IsEnabled(false) .Visibility(EVisibility::SelfHitTestInvisible) +SOverlay::Slot() .HAlign(EHorizontalAlignment::HAlign_Fill) .VAlign(EVerticalAlignment::VAlign_Fill) [ SNew(SImage) .ColorAndOpacity(FColor(0, 0, 0, 200)) .IsEnabled(false) .Visibility(EVisibility::SelfHitTestInvisible) ] +SOverlay::Slot() .HAlign(EHorizontalAlignment::HAlign_Fill) .VAlign(EVerticalAlignment::VAlign_Fill) .Padding(20.f) [ SNew(STextBlock) .ColorAndOpacity(FColor(255, 255, 255, 255)) .AutoWrapText(true) .WrappingPolicy(ETextWrappingPolicy::AllowPerCharacterWrapping) .ForceVolatile(true) .Visibility(EVisibility::HitTestInvisible) .TextStyle(&FCoreStyle::Get().GetWidgetStyle<FTextBlockStyle>("NormalText")) .Justification(ETextJustify::Left) .Text(DisplayText) ] ]; im guessing i need to set SOverlay,s size and location and then have everything else relative to it, but how?

pastel phoenix Apr 19, 2020, 6:12 PM

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you need a boxes for positions and sizes

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for example -

            SNew(SBox)
            .WidthOverride(300)
            .HeightOverride(120)

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box should be inside of overlay slot

quaint zealot Apr 19, 2020, 6:21 PM

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Reminder that game UI might be much easier to create with UMG

spring island Apr 19, 2020, 6:47 PM

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so like this:? ChildSlot [ SNew(SOverlay) .IsEnabled(false) .Visibility(EVisibility::SelfHitTestInvisible) +SOverlay::Slot() .HAlign(EHorizontalAlignment::HAlign_Fill) .VAlign(EVerticalAlignment::VAlign_Fill) [ SNew(SBox) .WidthOverride(800) .HeightOverride(300) [ SNew(SImage) .ColorAndOpacity(FColor(0, 0, 0, 200)) .IsEnabled(false) .Visibility(EVisibility::SelfHitTestInvisible) ] ] +SOverlay::Slot() .HAlign(EHorizontalAlignment::HAlign_Fill) .VAlign(EVerticalAlignment::VAlign_Fill) .Padding(20.f) [ SNew(SBox) .HeightOverride(300) .WidthOverride(800) [ SNew(STextBlock) .ColorAndOpacity(FColor(255, 255, 255, 255)) .AutoWrapText(true) .WrappingPolicy(ETextWrappingPolicy::AllowPerCharacterWrapping) .ForceVolatile(true) .Visibility(EVisibility::HitTestInvisible) .TextStyle(&FCoreStyle::Get().GetWidgetStyle<FTextBlockStyle>("NormalText")) .Justification(ETextJustify::Left) .Text(DisplayText) ] ] ]; unfortunately it does not seem to work =(

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putting it before SNew(SOverlay) does not seem to work either

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seems that HAlign and VAlign works when used with the box at the very top, but height/width overrides does nothing at all..

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do you know any examples i could look at?

pastel phoenix Apr 19, 2020, 7:23 PM

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    ChildSlot
    [
        SNew(SOverlay)
        + SOverlay::Slot()
        .HAlign(HAlign_Left)
        .VAlign(VAlign_Fill)
        [
            SNew(SBox)
            .HAlign(HAlign_Fill)
            .VAlign(VAlign_Fill)
            .WidthOverride(300)
            .HeightOverride(120)
            [
                mBgImage.ToSharedRef()
            ]
        ]

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works for me

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fullscreen example

📎 Untitled.png

spring island Apr 19, 2020, 7:34 PM

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thanks, i got it working now

queen citrus Apr 20, 2020, 11:50 AM

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Has anyone ever had the problem that after the hot reload the editor crashes with the following error message and after restarting it works.

Assertion failed: !FindSlateStyle( SlateStyleName ) [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/SlateCore/Private/Styling/SlateStyleRegistry.cpp] [Line: 21]

UE4Editor_Core!AssertFailedImplV() [d:\build++ue4\sync\engine\source\runtime\core\private\misc\assertionmacros.cpp:105]
UE4Editor_Core!FDebug::CheckVerifyFailedImpl() [d:\build++ue4\sync\engine\source\runtime\core\private\misc\assertionmacros.cpp:455]
UE4Editor_SlateCore!FSlateStyleRegistry::RegisterSlateStyle() [d:\build++ue4\sync\engine\source\runtime\slatecore\private\styling\slatestyleregistry.cpp:21]
UE4Editor_1523!FApplicationStyles::Initialize() [H:\Source\UI\ApplicationStyles.cpp:16]
UE4Editor_1523!SEditorWidget::Construct() [H:\Source\UI\Editor\SEditorWidget.cpp:102]

quaint zealot Apr 20, 2020, 11:51 AM

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Do you use Slate styles ?

queen citrus Apr 20, 2020, 11:51 AM

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yes

quaint zealot Apr 20, 2020, 11:51 AM

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Then you need some work to get them to work with hot reload

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Basically return a default slate style in your styleset

queen citrus Apr 20, 2020, 11:52 AM

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ok i try thanks

quaint zealot Apr 20, 2020, 11:55 AM

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This is what my "get style asset" function looks like

#

template<typename T>
static const T& GetTheme(const FName& Name = TEXT("Default"))
{
#if WITH_EDITOR
    if (Instance)
#else
    check(Instance);
#endif
    {
        return Instance->GetWidgetStyle<T>(Name);
    }
#if WITH_EDITOR
    else
    {
        return T::GetDefault();
    }
#endif
}```

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Instance is a static TSharedPtr<FSlateStyleSet>

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The thing you create, register, then unregister and shutdown in your module callbacks

queen citrus Apr 20, 2020, 12:25 PM

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Maybe my StartUpModule Method is wrong. It look like this:

void FGameModule::StartupModule() {
//Hot reload hack
FSlateStyleRegistry::UnRegisterSlateStyle(FApplicationStyles::GetStyleSetName());
FSlateStyleRegistry::RegisterSlateStyle(FApplicationStyles::Get());
}

noble meteor Apr 20, 2020, 11:27 PM

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Hm. I tried following this tutorial, just to get a starting point for using Slate. (https://www.ue4community.wiki/Legacy/Slate,_Hello)
But there's errors in 3 out of the 4 files created, and when I play the game it's a bunch of red A's in boxes instead of red text.

#

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MenuHUD.cpp

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SMenuSlateWidget.h

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SMenuSlateWidget.cpp

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noble meteor Apr 21, 2020, 12:01 AM

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(Or should I have asked over in #cpp?)

opaque garnet Apr 21, 2020, 5:42 AM

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Hey guys, is there any template for UCanvas size?

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I see in shooter game they did this

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UCanvas::MakeIcon(HUDMainTexture, 250, 468, 21, 28);

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But how did they get those numbers?

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I doubt they randomly guessed...so is there a template where I can see how much I gotta move my texture in a certain direction?

quaint zealot Apr 21, 2020, 6:38 AM

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@opaque garnet Just the size they wanted for the icon at the size they wanted

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@noble meteor The red underlined text in VS are not errors, just Intellisense being bad. Compile and look at the log for errors. As to the result itself, the font is probably wrong.

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Loading from a font by name like that has been deprecated for at least 5 years

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This is why the Wiki was removed

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You should be using the styleset system, create a style asset that would reference your fonts

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Styleset example : https://github.com/arbonagw/HeliumRain/blob/master/Source/HeliumRain/UI/Style/FlareStyleSet.h
Style asset example : https://github.com/arbonagw/HeliumRain/blob/master/Source/HeliumRain/UI/Style/FlareWidgetStyleCatalog.h

GitHub

arbonagw/HeliumRain

HELIUM RAIN - Full sources for Helium Rain, a realistic space opera using Unreal Engine 4 - arbonagw/HeliumRain

GitHub

arbonagw/HeliumRain

HELIUM RAIN - Full sources for Helium Rain, a realistic space opera using Unreal Engine 4 - arbonagw/HeliumRain

opaque garnet Apr 21, 2020, 6:44 AM

#

Thanks I'll look into this!

royal geode Apr 21, 2020, 6:56 AM

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@quaint zealot Hey Stranger, since you seem to have done quite a bit of slate/umg in HeliumRain: how do you handle styles in UMG?

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In Slate all the styles can be regrouped in a single theme cpp

quaint zealot Apr 21, 2020, 6:56 AM

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I don't do UMG generally but AFAIK UMG assets have the style built-in as a member

royal geode Apr 21, 2020, 6:57 AM

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It seems to be a struct member yes: cpp UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite, Category="Appearance", meta=( DisplayName="Style" )) FButtonStyle WidgetStyle;

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but I wonder if there's a simple way to centralize their definitions 🤔

quaint zealot Apr 21, 2020, 6:59 AM

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Style in Slate is underwhelming. Some style elements aren't used, some styling isn't possible with styles. Epic appeared to go "fuck it" on them.

royal geode Apr 21, 2020, 7:00 AM

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well idk, I managed to use them quite neatly

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although quite a few engine fixes are required yeah

quaint zealot Apr 21, 2020, 7:00 AM

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The way I handle style is more and more "no styling on core widgets, do the styling in custom classes"

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I think progress bar is the only widget I still have an engine style struct for

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Maybe scroll box too

royal geode Apr 21, 2020, 7:01 AM

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all your other stuff is entirely custom? You remade the widgets from scratch?

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I see, you have wrapper classes for all widgets

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(dang open sourcing code is awesome :D)

quaint zealot Apr 21, 2020, 7:04 AM

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Most of that is very different in my current project but that's the idea

royal geode Apr 21, 2020, 7:04 AM

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I did pretty much the same yeah

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Adding wrappers everywhere

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I guess I should do that for UMG as well then thonking

quaint zealot Apr 21, 2020, 7:07 AM

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The way I see it, you can do your own UMG widgets based on Slate matching widgets

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Many UMG widgets are 100 lines

royal geode Apr 21, 2020, 7:07 AM

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yup

umbral saddle Apr 23, 2020, 9:18 PM

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I just asked this in UMG but maybe this is a more appropriate place for my question.. so sorry for the double post.

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Can anyone tell me the difference between GetTickSpaceGeometry and GetPaintSpaceGeometry? It looks like they are just returning different parts of an FSlateWidgetPersistentState AllottedGeometry and DesktopGeometry. One is used in Update and one is used in Repaint... but I would really love a higher level explanation of what these are. They output different vectors even if an object is not moving/being repainted.

chilly coral Apr 26, 2020, 12:04 PM

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Hi, so im making a custom property type customization for a struct i have in my project and ive been succesfull setting it up, but im not sure how to proceed from here,

I would like to make my struct "some new representation" show up like FColor does where it has the drop down menu and it shows my variables. Im relatively new to editor scripting so i havent found out how the engine does it yet. Thanks.

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short hollow Apr 26, 2020, 4:49 PM

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You can see the file ColorStructCustomization.cpp/.h to see how the engine does it 😄

chilly coral Apr 26, 2020, 6:18 PM

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Thanks for the reply!
It took me a bit to think of that, looking throught engine code is new to me. if anyone if anyones curious about the solution you can use the CustomizeChildren() function in IPropertyTypeCustomization and add properties there and it will automatically do the dropdown for you aswell.

void FCustomStructDetailsCustomization::CustomizeChildren(TSharedRef<IPropertyHandle> PropertyHandle,
    IDetailChildrenBuilder& ChildBuilder, IPropertyTypeCustomizationUtils& CustomizationUtils)
{
    uint32 NumChildren;
    PropertyHandle->GetNumChildren(NumChildren);
    for (uint32 ChildIndex = 0; ChildIndex < NumChildren; ++ChildIndex)
    {
        IDetailPropertyRow& Property = ChildBuilder.AddProperty(PropertyHandle->GetChildHandle(ChildIndex).ToSharedRef());
    }
}

short hollow Apr 26, 2020, 10:58 PM

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Nice! Glad you could find how to do it!

green maple Apr 27, 2020, 2:03 AM

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Hi.

Upon launching my UE4 application I want two separate windows to be made, and I want to render two different scenes to them. Would I just make a new SWindow and attach a second render target to that new window?

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not using blueprint btw

warm vault Apr 29, 2020, 11:27 PM

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Is there a way to get the size of an SWidget at runtime if i set it in UMG design time?

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quaint zealot Apr 30, 2020, 5:44 AM

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GetDesiredSize ?

main hedge Apr 30, 2020, 8:49 AM

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that would give you the desired size, not the size the slot forces it to be

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you would need to read the size from the slot directly or use get cached geometry

quaint zealot Apr 30, 2020, 8:54 AM

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Yeah, GetCachedGeometry it is

warm vault Apr 30, 2020, 2:18 PM

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How can i make this image's rotation change depending on a varaible

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warped saffron May 1, 2020, 3:24 PM

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I'm new to Slate, but have created a basic UI with some labels.. the label's get their text from a function. However, how do I update the label? I can change the value the function returns but the label never see's this - is there some sort of refresh I need to do or is it more complex than that?

quaint zealot May 1, 2020, 3:30 PM

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.Text(this, &MyClass::Callback)

warped saffron May 1, 2020, 3:31 PM

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so I have this ".Text_Raw(this, &FKJModEditorModule::GetLocalProcessUpdateString)"

quaint zealot May 1, 2020, 3:31 PM

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Dunno what Text_Raw is

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I always use Text

warped saffron May 1, 2020, 3:36 PM

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I've copied some example, but the point being will the UI call this function every frame? constantly - so if I change what it returns the label gets updated?

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Or is there some .Update() I need to call to refresh the window

quaint zealot May 1, 2020, 3:45 PM

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The UI will call this function every frame.

warped saffron May 1, 2020, 3:47 PM

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Thanks, I must have something else wrong 😮

quaint zealot May 1, 2020, 3:52 PM

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Well did you try Text( ?

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Text_Raw looks like some weird variant of Text so that's suspicious at best

royal geode May 1, 2020, 11:27 PM

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@quaint zealot Text_Raw is the Text delegate created from a raw pointer

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just like you'd have Text_UObject

tired sandal May 2, 2020, 2:06 AM

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@low bluff @quaint zealot Thanks. Your conversation and shared code from a year ago just lead to finding the solution to the issue I was having setting an image on a throbber for a loading screen.

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https://discordapp.com/channels/187217643009212416/375021750393634826/576320114098700288

quaint zealot May 2, 2020, 6:53 AM

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@royal geode But Slate objects are not raw pointers

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Though looking at the code I guess FKJModEditorModule might be

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Problem here might be that FKJModEditorModule instance not being valid anymore after the creation of the text box

royal geode May 2, 2020, 6:55 AM

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@quaint zealot No like

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BindRaw

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on delegates

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(ofc it should never be used)

quaint zealot May 2, 2020, 7:01 AM

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What I mean is, all Slate objects would use .Text()

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And the text callback should be on the object directly imho

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Store a pointer to the data object on the widget and get the data in the callback

warped saffron May 2, 2020, 9:59 AM

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I'm struggling to figure out how to spawn an async (or different thread) for doing work on a button OnClick() - basically my OnClick() needs to execute a series of commands that are external to UE4 (like executing DOS commands, or C++ stdlib directory searching, etc.) - but if I do that in the button click UE4 stalls (as you would expect) but I can't find the ideal way to do this.. I would appreciate any hints or tips!

pastel phoenix May 2, 2020, 10:19 AM

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AsyncTask(ENamedThreads::GameThread, []()
{
  // some async doing
});

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@warped saffron

warped saffron May 2, 2020, 11:27 AM

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Cheers @pastel phoenix for the pointer, I'll dig there

spice leaf May 3, 2020, 9:31 PM

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Hey all, I have a singleton class that acts as a logger. I am trying to display that information on an in-editor slate widget and although the information is correct on a simple UE_LOG, when the slate widget is trying to get my singleton the information comes up empty. Any ideas?

royal geode May 3, 2020, 9:57 PM

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Not really a slate issue is it

spice leaf May 3, 2020, 10:00 PM

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No idea what it might be so I figured I'd ask in both channels

royal geode May 3, 2020, 10:02 PM

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Like you messed up something in your code somewhere

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Hard to say anything without seeing the full code

narrow terrace May 5, 2020, 3:32 AM

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Hello would anybody here be able to help me out with the scrollbox? I'm trying to figure out how to allow the mouse button down function to return an Unhandled reply but still allow for the scrollbox to be dragable...

craggy holly May 5, 2020, 11:23 AM

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You can possibly override SScrollBox::OnMouseButtonDown() to just return an unhandled event. Not sure it'll behave properly though because focus won't be properly applied then.

craggy holly May 5, 2020, 11:56 AM

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Put the box in a container widget that acts as a border/header and make that dragable instead

warm vault May 9, 2020, 7:11 AM

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anyone know anything about this d3d11 rhi crash?

quaint zealot May 9, 2020, 7:15 AM

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What RHI crash ?

warm vault May 9, 2020, 7:24 AM

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quaint zealot May 9, 2020, 7:28 AM

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How is that Slate related ?

warm vault May 9, 2020, 7:28 AM

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it says slate in there

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slaterhirendere

quaint zealot May 9, 2020, 7:29 AM

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Do you have Slate code ?

warm vault May 9, 2020, 7:29 AM

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nope

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just says it

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or maybe idk

quaint zealot May 9, 2020, 7:30 AM

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If you don't have Slate code there is nothing for you to fix here, the renderer just crashed. Report the bug if you're on 4.25

warm vault May 9, 2020, 7:31 AM

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lol wow thanks

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theres always one lol

wide plaza May 12, 2020, 6:36 AM

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it'll help if you actually have debug symbols

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rip old messages

unborn nimbus May 13, 2020, 4:14 PM

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I'm getting this error how can I fix it ? : D/UE4: Slate vertex buffer is too large (65568) to work with uint16 indices*

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 7:44 AM

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Hey everyone, i'm searching for a minimal project like "hello world" for slate ui

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I worked through around 4 tutorials already and not one tutorial worked

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 8:01 AM

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There really isn't much documentation. Usually you'd mirror what other editor tools do

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 8:08 AM

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@quaint zealot But isn't there just a very minimal project where you create a SWidget with Text in it and add it to the Viewport?

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Either by creating a HUD or something else?

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I can't even google for Slate Tutorials since all seem to mix up with UMG at some point

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 8:09 AM

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If you're doing a game, UMG is very much the recommended approach

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Epic does not consider Slate a game development tool

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 8:10 AM

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I'm creating a GUI for Moodle inside Unreal

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Where you can select courses etc.

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And unfortunatly i have to do this with code only

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 8:11 AM

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As someone who does use Slate for game UI, the reason there is no documentation is that Slate really is a mess to use, it's C++ intensive, widget styling is very inconsistent, and you'll end up rewriting all widgets yourself

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UMG is a much much much easier time if you don't have a lot of work invested in Slate already

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 8:13 AM

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I mean, it's nice to have a WYSIWYG-Editor

Ye, but i kinda think UE in general doesn't handle UI very well. At least with what i researched...
I would say even JavaFX handles UI 1mio. times better and that kinda dissapoints me

I saw that people use Web-Designs in Unreal instead using Unreals UI.
Would you suggest starting with creating HTMLs to display?
Otherwise i would have to go with Slate

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 8:13 AM

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UMG is perfectly fine

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It's what I would suggest

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There are multiple ways to use HTML in UE4, with or without paid solutions

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And you can use Slate too, but as you found out, it has issues

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 8:15 AM

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Did you already work with HTML and would you suggest it over Slate?
Or would you rather use Slate?

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 8:16 AM

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In particular if you want to have style on buttons etc - you'll need 3 new classes just for that

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No, I would never suggest HTML

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 8:16 AM

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Ye, i saw styling is also kinda weird

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But thats a problem in UMG too or am i wrong?

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I never saw options like dropshadow etc.

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And cloning a widget just to offset it by hand is kinda weird imo

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 8:17 AM

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You're in game development here, so "drop shadows" is a border with a shadow image

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 8:18 AM

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I guess i ask my mentor if i'm allowed to go with UMG then

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 8:18 AM

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UMG is quie straightforward for styling, it's much more consistent than Slate anyway. To this day after 6 years of Slate I have no idea which of the two color types are accepted by the .Color() attribute of a given widget

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What UMG doesn't do is what Slate attempt badly, which is HTML style stylesheets

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UMG is entirely per-widget styling instead, so you create a styled button and use that button in your widgets

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But Slate does this terribly and you end up doing the same thing, except it's C++ instead

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 8:20 AM

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hmm, you kinda convinced me, but i would like to give Slate a last try before i ask
Maybe i could use this experience for something later

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Do you have a good tutorial for displaying one simple widget on screen?

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 8:21 AM

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No, I don't

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What I do have is the source code for a full Slate game : https://github.com/arbonagw/HeliumRain/tree/master/Source/HeliumRain/UI

GitHub

arbonagw/HeliumRain

HELIUM RAIN - Full sources for Helium Rain, a realistic space opera using Unreal Engine 4 - arbonagw/HeliumRain

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 8:21 AM

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Thanks for all the information tho!
It really helped me out :)

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 8:22 AM

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Here's how I create widgets on screen : https://github.com/arbonagw/HeliumRain/blob/master/Source/HeliumRain/Player/FlareHUD.cpp#L196

GitHub

arbonagw/HeliumRain

HELIUM RAIN - Full sources for Helium Rain, a realistic space opera using Unreal Engine 4 - arbonagw/HeliumRain

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Basically SNew + the AddViewportWidgetContent thing

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 8:23 AM

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Thanks, i'll have a look and try to understand what and how you did this :)

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 10:00 AM

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@quaint zealot, thanks, i managed to reproduce a minimal UI.
Is there a basic font i have to set in UE?

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SNew(STextBlock)
        .ShadowColorAndOpacity(FLinearColor::Black)
        .ColorAndOpacity(FLinearColor::Red)
        .ShadowOffset(FIntPoint(-1, 1))
        .Font(FSlateFontInfo("Verdana", 80))

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 10:04 AM

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Need a style asset, with a font you'll set in a Blueprint asset based on that style

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 10:04 AM

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Is there a way without a blueprint?

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Just importing a fontname.ttf?

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For example Roboto?

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 10:06 AM

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Not that I know of

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It's UE4, Blueprint is how you use it

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 10:08 AM

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cryingweeb

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At least i learned something about UE now

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 10:12 AM

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All Slate assets are going to be in the content browser, just like regular textures

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Style is just an asset

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 10:38 AM

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@quaint zealot So i tried to create an asset to apply the BasicFont to every UI-Element via Project-Settings

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It actually works with the on-screen-message but not with my regular "Hello-World"

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I tried using either:
.Font(FSlateFontInfo("Roboto-Bold", 80))
or
.Font(FSlateFontInfo("BasicFont", 80))

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Both don't seem to work

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If i remove this line totally i can see the hello world, but cant adjust the textsize

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Since i didnt find an option for this

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 10:40 AM

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You ca't use FSlateFontInfo directly like that

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Needs to be an asset.

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 10:40 AM

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I thought i created a Font-Asset

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Maybe i missunderstood you

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sorry

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 10:40 AM

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'FSlateFontInfo("BasicFont", 80)' is never going to work

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need a FSlateFontInfo UPROPERTY, asset based on that class, asset created, and used from C++ using the styleset system

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Like I said, Slate styling is hard

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You can't have the font defined in code that way

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Used to be the way in 2013, but no longer

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Check the Style folder of the repo I linked earlier for some example

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 10:50 AM

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I found a way @quaint zealot :)

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.Font(FSlateFontInfo(FPaths::EngineContentDir() / TEXT("Slate/Fonts/Roboto-Bold.ttf"), 80)) does the trick

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 10:54 AM

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Alright

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Just make sure to get the font packaged too, because this font won't be in the package

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Perks of UPROPERTY + a stylesheet is that it's just another asset

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Like you'll do for images

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 10:58 AM

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Ye, i hope this works x_X

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Thanks a lot for the help tho :)
I will try the asset solution later if i discussed this with my team-member !

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fedora

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 12:43 PM

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Is there a way to remove the opacity from an Image?

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bc i guess thats what the checkered pattern is

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I used

SNew(SImage).ColorAndOpacity(FColor::Green)
``` for this

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 12:45 PM

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Well, what's the image used ?

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 12:45 PM

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Then i tried using a SBorder, since it seems to work in UMG

SNew(SBorder)
                .ForegroundColor(FColor::Green)
                .ColorAndOpacity(FColor::Green)
                .BorderBackgroundColor(FColor::Green)

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 12:45 PM

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So you have no image at all, and you just have the default engine material instead, except tinted green.

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 12:46 PM

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Yes, i tried using a brush for that

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with a tint

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But maybe i understood something wrong

quaint zealot May 15, 2020, 12:46 PM

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Well, what is it that you actually want to do here ?

cyan iris May 15, 2020, 12:46 PM

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Just a Box