Anyone else manipulated UMG enough that it stops receiving input?

Development Programming & Scripting UI
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I must say that I loathe the way that some UI elements consumes input…

I’m just an indie dev, so UMG is all I have, so what do you do? Well, you roll your own buttons, roll your own grid navigation handling, roll your own on-the-fly keyboard/gamepad/mouse switching, etc etc (all in Blueprints).

Until you come upon a user-widget inside of a user-widget problem you just can’t get to work without adding a button… so now you have to add an extra function that detects the consumed click and reports it back up to your own input handling…

…and suddenly, input action events stop working.

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Like, breakpoints like the one above simply don’t fire, no matter how much you press the buttons.

Until you restart that is, and don’t go into that menu with the user-widget inside the user-widget and those buttons…

Anyone had that happen to them? How do you even debug that? The output log is clean!

EDIT: Btw, in case anyone asks, it has nothing to do with input modes… the only input mode node I have in my project looks like this… :sweat_smile:

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So you have multiple widgets in the screen at the same time, and more then one of them has the same action in them?

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Sorry if I was unclear, but the first screenshot in my post is from the Player Controller and is a mapped input action… only it’s mapped to the arrow keys which UMG swallows in some modes (which as the second screenshot indicates, I haven’t activated).

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Yeah I am in the same (sinking) boat. Fun. Whaddayawant for free?

(Update: that will probably jinx me for posting this, but i just changed my UMG buttons onClicked to just be Mouse Down and that… seems to have fixed it… wtf?)