Have C++ UMG property show up in the Designer Editor

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Hello, I am trying to get a UMG property that I created in C++ to show up in the Designer Editor so it can be placed and manipulated visually.

Specifically, I created a ComboBoxString that I need to manipulate in C++

public:
		UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite, Category = "Directory Widget")
			UComboBoxString* Drives_ComboBox;

The following is in a ‘Directory’ class extended from UserWidget

Currently it is only showing up in the details window in the graph tab

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However it won’t show up in either my hierarchy (expected) or palette (not expected because I would assume I would have to create a separate class for my specific ComboBoxString) windows and I am not sure how to get it to do so.

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I would appreciate if anyone can help me out on getting this UMG property to show up. If I have to create a UClass just for the combobox that is fine, I am just not sure how to go about it.

Thanks

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Hey guys I’m back. I found a work around for this problem. First I made a variable inside my class extended by UserWidget (My Directory class)

UComboBoxString* drives;

Then I created an initialize function to connect my UComboBoxString in the Designer Editor to my C++ variable for manipulation:

void UDirectoryWidget::initDirectory(FString DrivesComboBox){
	drives = (UComboBoxString*)GetWidgetFromName(FName(*DrivesComboBox));
}

Then in the graph I called the function during the Event Construct

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Don’t mind the Debug Text. It should be fairly simple to interface with C++ now.

I would, however, like to know if there is another way of getting this done with a UProperty variable I create right from C++.

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this is a workaround , does anyone know how a proper way of doing this?