Can I declare a variable to hold a Widget BP Reference?

[NickDarnell]

@Keytotruth;292167

Thanks for the example, but the problem here is that that way I cannot access the local variables created within that blueprint. Like, if that “BP_UI_Menus_CharacterSelect” has a int variable, you can’t access it from C++ because it’s not a subclass declared within code, thus, you can’t access its members.

You could define a new base class for your widgets by extending UUserWidget in C++ and reparent your Widget Blueprint. Your base class could have all those members you want to access from C++. Though I don’t recommend that design, where possible a good UI design should poll or listen for changes from the game. It’s generally a bad idea to be directly pushing changes to the UI from game code.