Details Customization Error

Development Programming & Scripting C++
1

Hi.

I tried following this tutorial : A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki - Announcements and Releases - Unreal Engine Forums, but it doesn’t even compile.
There seems to be some problem with the inclusion of the DetailCustomizationsPrivatePCH.h, the error message saying “fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘PropertyEditing.h’: No such file or directory”.
Am I missing something, like a dependency or include? Or could my compiler be damaged? Any ideas?

2

I got this to work by copying “Editor\DetailCustomizations\DetailCustomizations.Build.cs” into my build.cs . Not sure which modules were missing, I will figure that out later through module russian roulette.

3

You just need to add the “PropertyEditor” module as a dependency.

4

For the include alone, yes. But once I added some more functionality it wasn’t enough any more, so my guess is that there’s some other important stuff in that pile of modules.

5

Well, when you get errors like that, just do a search in the documentation/Github for the type/header file the error mentioned, and you can find out what module it’s in. Better than adding a bunch of dependencies that you don’t need.

6

switch:
#include “Editor/DetailCustomizations/Private/DetailCustomizationsPrivatePCH.h”

to:
#include “DetailCustomizations.h”
#include “IPropertyTypeCustomization.h”

Edit Build.cs add:

	PrivateIncludePaths.AddRange(
		new string] {
			"Editor/DetailCustomizations/Private",
		}
		);

	PrivateDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(
		new string]
		{
			"PropertyEditor",
			"DetailCustomizations",
		}
		);

Worked for me in 4.16.

Here’s a reference for the properties customization in a plugin.
https://github.com/tgraupmann/UE4ChromaSDK/blob/master/Plugins/ChromaSDKPlugin/Source/ChromaSDKPlugin/Public/ChromaSDKPluginAnimation1DCustomization.h

Here’s a reference for having a custom details view defined in a plugin.
https://github.com/tgraupmann/UE4ChromaSDK/blob/master/Plugins/ChromaSDKPlugin/Source/ChromaSDKPlugin/Public/ChromaSDKPluginAnimation2DDetails.h