left panel in Blueprints now formats visual appearance of function names to have spaces, even if spaces are not actually there!
This means that using timers and anything were you would copy-paste function name is now very difficult to understand!
Because now you can’t even select function name, press F2, and then copy paste
you have to KNOW how you originally entered function name!
#Repro
Make a new actor class
Make a new function
Call function TimerTest with no space
[4.5] will format both node name and name as it appears in left panel
BUT THIS IS NOT ACTUAL FUNCTION NAME
You are now hiding from us real function name
So if you run a SetTimer with “Timer Test” which is how it now appears, that timer does not work!
You have to know to enter name as TimerTest even though there is no absolutely no way to see that this is real function name!
#You Are Hiding Our Actual User Input
You are hiding from us how we originally entered our function names, behind this wall of formatting, and now all BP code is going to be very hard to maintain long term when you forget where you did and did not enter spaces!
I am writing this while doing a session with a client in Blueprints where we just encountered this issue and it cost us a lot of time to realize why our timers were not working.
This is a terrible mistake you are making by formatting user input for visual appearances only, causing core functionality of timers to completely break
What you are seeing is Friendly Name of function. You can disable this by going to Editor Preferences > Appearance > User Interface and unchecking Show Friendly Variable Names, which includes function names.
I have entered a feature request (UE-4665) for Timers so they can recognize Friendly Name as well as function name, or to include actual function name in Details panel when function is selected. Thanks for feedback!
Please do not mark posts as a crash bug when no crash is involved. Thank you!
“I have entered a feature request (UE-4665) for Timers so they can recognize Friendly Name as well as function name, or to include actual function name in Details panel when function is selected. Thanks for feedback!”
This is a great feature request, thanks !
“Please do not mark posts as a crash bug when no crash is involved. Thank you!”
Hahaha okay fine, then can we have a new tag for “Emotional Crash” ?
It’s recommended to use “_Delegate” versions of timer functions. SetTimer_Delegate should already be there, others were added in cl#2393691 (epic p4, safe for out-of-order merge). They will be released soon.
