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

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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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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they are maybe a best solution from mine but here what I have done to be able to use an array from the event graph,

I needed to use a array in my event graph while creating the widget to dynamically generate the widget from BP but was using an array specially setuped from C++

UFUNCTION(BlueprintPure, Category = XXX)
const UComboBoxString* GetComboBoxString() const;

From the event graph, right click, type get ComboBoxString, from there you can use the combobox… hopefully it will help!

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Hey thanks for the comment, but I am able to get it to the event graph. The thing I was trying to do is get it to the Designer editor so I can manipulate it visually. I actually found a workaround or a different way of thinking about it as I explained in the answerhub if you wanted to check it out
https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/241654/have-c-umg-property-show-up-in-the-designer-editor.html

I pretty much just made a pointer to the widget I wanted to manipulate in C++

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You can’t because those things in the top-left are Derivatives of UWidgetComponent or something I believe (Might not be the right thing, but I’m still sure they’re not UUserWidgets). You’ll have to create a bespoke class that any widget can use.