I have a widget that’s a single icon that directly talks to the player controller when it is pressed.
But I want it to report in which menu it is located, ie which blueprint asset in the component browser.
However, when I loop through “get parent” to get to the top, I always only get widgets. I never end up in the object containing the widget.
Is there a way to access that via blueprints?
If you create a parent actor for your blueprint actor and make it a child, then you can cast to the parent anywhere you like and you’ll always have a connection to its children essentially meaning you never need to figure out what the top-level class is because you know.
What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
Get Parent always seems to return a “panel widget” object. But that “panel widget” is always placed in a “user widget” blueprint asset (ie, the button that asks is always placed in a menu). I’m trying to access that bleprint asset, but I don’t know how (ie, the button wants to know which menu it is in).
Oh you’re using widgets inside of widgets? When you said blueprint asset, I assumed a blueprint actor, not a widget. Sorry, I’m very inexperienced with widgets. Maybe post on the forums rather than answer hub?
When i make a widget and want to access its parent i just make a variable in the widget wth a reference to the object (parent). Gotta make it instance editable and expose on spawn and when you create a widget there’s an extra pin, just use “self” in the parent object to hook it up
