Is there an equivalent to the the [SpawnActorDeferred][1] for UserWidgets? In Blueprints there is the following, which makes me think that there is some way, but i have been unable to find any documentation or functions to do so.
I’ve found some old questions that suggest that it wasn’t possible as of 2015.
The basic idea is so I can set some variables at creation time and work with them in the Native(Pre)Construct functions, like i would in a widget blueprint. My reference to Actors is that they have the SpawnActorDeferred and FinishSpawningActor, which allows c++ to have a time to initialize anything before the constructor is called.
If you are referring to Pre-construct, you just need to override it (same as in Blueprints).
(just to add, it’s the UUserWidget::NativePreConstruct that needs to be overriden)
What exactly are you trying to defer? Widgets are UObjects, not AActors. They don’t have a concept of spawning, they are created internally with NewObject.
Are you sure that the result of this node is already constructed? If I remember correctly, construction only happens when you add the widget to the screen or to another parent widget.
Thank you, you are correct. I had setup a test to figure out if the NativeConstruct was called as soon as the CreateWidget was called or after it at some point, but I had a flaw in my test which flipped how the results were represented. Hence the question, and your answer clarified why my test was incorrect.