How to change the text accordingly when the button gains focus using the keyboard arrow keys?

Everynone · January 28, 2025, 4:04pm

create a new widget with just a button (no canvas), an Instance Editable variable and an Event Dispatcher:

Overrride onAddedToFocusPath → call dispatcher, pipe in text

in your main widget, instead of native buttons, add your fancy custom buttons:

select all of them and flag them as isFocusable:

select each of them, and edit their text variable:

This is how you can associate data with a button - like selecting another character. Since each button is a standalone widget, you can add any variables and have the widget send them to whoever is listening. Here, it’s just text but it can be a class to spawn.

in the same widget, bind their dispatchers:

when adding the main widget, choose which button is focused by default (if any):

the result: