Quick and dirty custom scrollbar for the built-in scrollbox umg widget

I wrote up a blog post after going through a bit more effort than I expected to setup a custom Scrollbar (behavior and visuals) for the built-in Scroll Box widget. In case anyone here is interested in what I went through or if you’re looking to do the same, here you go:

As you may already know, UMG provides a built-in Scrollbox widget for easily displaying scrollable content. This widget handles all of the hard bits and gives you the ability to, mostly; customize its look to your liking. However, the scrollbar behavior is set in stone from UMGs side of things. Meaning you cannot have a scrollbar that has a constant size and does not change opacity on rollover.

But, this was exactly the behavior we needed!

Continue reading here: https://www.vicogamestudio.com/development-blog/item/quick-and-dirty-custom-scrollbar-for-the-built-in-scrollbox-umg-widget

Happy to answer questions here! And any feedback is welcome, this is my first blog post here :slight_smile:

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Hey there. I know it’s been a while since the original post, but I would love to see how you have done this! Unfortunately the link doesn’t seem to be working anymore.

Hi,

I’m looking for same thing.

Luckily Archive saved this article: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/quick-and-dirty-custom-scrollbar-for-the-built-in-scrollbox-umg-widget/96359