5.7 crash with EditableTextBox.SetStyle?

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This is easy to reproduce:

  1. Create an empty 5.7.1 project
  2. Create a user widget and add a Text Box
  3. In the PreConstruct event, call TextBox.SetStyle and give it any style. It can be an empty one or one that’s fully built out.
  4. Compile and go to design view
  5. Instant crash.

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Has anyone found a workaround for this? It’s preventing us from upgrading our UI-heavy application.

Thanks!

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Having the same issue, very easy to reproduce.

Can only have one embeded media, so will only upload the actual crash

On event Pre Construct

Set Style on a Editable Text Box Using Editable Text Box Style Structure causes crash on save

Tried multiple variation, new blueprint, different folder, different project, change variable names, the issues repeats 100% of the time

Only Work around i found is using a Editable text instead of Editable text box

Crash

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Just ran into this myself after updating my 5.6 project to 5.7.1. Was a huge pain to figure out what was causing it. I’m actually doing this a number of times throughout my project to switch between font materials to get temporarily blinking red text for alerts and things like that. Wish I had more to add to the conversation but at the moment I’m kinda just peeved that I went through the effort of updating my whole project and it’s plugins just to run into something as randomly jank and detrimental as this 2 months post 5.7’s release :confused:

EDIT: I’m not much of a programmer (my entire project is blueprint-only), however after taking a look I’ve noticed in EditableTextbox.h and in EditableTextbox.cpp on UE5.6 (where I wasn’t having any issues with this) and UE 5.7, they’re exactly the same except a small bit of code has been added in both of the UE 5.7 versions of the files

EditableTextbox.h has this added:

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EditableTextbox.cpp has this added:

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I’m not sure what exactly is causing the issues, but figured it might be relevant/helpful for anyone taking a deeper look.

EDIT2:
I’ve found somewhat of a workaround/fix, but it’s not a fun one. I essentially pulled the UE 5.7.2 engine from github, deleted and replaced the EditableTextbox.h and EditableTextbox.cpp files with their working 5.6 versions, recompiled the editor, and voila, it works now (minus the hassle of getting all of my project’s plugins recompiled as well). In retrospect, it might’ve just been easier to switch all of my textbox widgets to the editable text widgets instead, but that would’ve been a huge pain as well so I opted for this. I haven’t fully tested to see what the full consequences of this change might end up being, but I haven’t seen any issues yet and for the moment it at least seems to have fixed the crashing problem🤞.