Editor widget handles not visible in blueprint editor viewport

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When making a component with variables like the one below the editor widget is only visible in the “main” viewport, not the blueprint editor viewport (so it can not be manipulated by dragging any more).

UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite, Category = "ElevatorProperties", Meta = (MakeEditWidget = true))
		FVector EndPoint;
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Hey -

Could you elaborate on what exactly is happening? What class does the code you posted belong to? Exactly what behavior are you seeing? Can you post screenshots to show the difference in behavior between the main viewport and blueprint viewport?

Cheers

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Yeah sorry, I was a bit stressed when writing this post. Here is the header of a example class:

#pragma once

#include "Components/SceneComponent.h"
#include "MySceneComponent.generated.h"


UCLASS( ClassGroup=(Custom), meta=(BlueprintSpawnableComponent) )
class TEST_4_8_API UMySceneComponent : public USceneComponent
{
	GENERATED_BODY()

public:	
	// Sets default values for this component's properties
	UMySceneComponent();

	// Called when the game starts
	virtual void BeginPlay() override;
	
	// Called every frame
	virtual void TickComponent( float DeltaTime, ELevelTick TickType, FActorComponentTickFunction* ThisTickFunction ) override;

	UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite, Category = "ElevatorProperties", Meta = (MakeEditWidget = true))
		FVector EndPoint = FVector::ZeroVector;

	UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite, Category = "ElevatorProperties", Meta = (MakeEditWidget = true))
		FVector StartPoint = FVector::ZeroVector;
		
};

When added to a empty actor in the “world” viewport it works as expected, the widgets are shown and can be dragged. When adding the component to a blueprint class in the blueprint editor viewport the vectors are only editable through changing in the details tab and the widgets are not visible in the viewport.

This is what it looks like when the component is added to an instanced actor in the world viewport:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12407316/ScreenShot00009.png

When added in the blueprint editor the widgets simply are not present (and hence only editable in details tab).

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Hey -

This is actually the expected behavior. If you look at MakeEditWidget in ObjectBasse.h (also defined here) it says that the property is exposed in the viewport as a movable widget. In this case the viewport being referred to is the main viewport rather than the viewport of a blueprint that has had this component added to it.

Cheers

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Thanks, now I know at least why it does not work. But the follow up question is then why? I only see benefits of keeping the same functionality between the two viewports.

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I spoke with some of our engineers who agree that the inconsistency is an issue and entered a bug report for it. (UE-19243)

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Thank you for your reply! I suspect things will change a bit over time as well with the future “Bluefabs” which is on the roadmap for the coming months. Will try to work around kinks like this meanwhile :slight_smile:

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Hi ,
I was just wondering if there was any new info on this. I’m trying to make a new feature for our game, and this would be super useful. Just curious if this is being worked on or if there’s any information that might help us implement it ourselves.

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Hey Mrooney-

This report is still open in our system without an expected fix timeframe yet. If you are trying to do this in your project, it is possible to create the FVector with the MakeEditWidget specifier, the only issue is that the position of those FVectors can only be changed in the level editor rather than in the blueprint itself.

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Is this issue still planned to be resolved? It’s been quite a while.

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Issue has been marked as solved, but it was never really solved. Still broken on 4.27.2

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Still broken in 5.1.1. Not sure about more recent versions.

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Should also note that UE-19243 seems to be marked as a duplicate of UE-13384, which is not actually the case.

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Still broken in 5.2

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Still broken in 5.4