How to implement mouse drag text control in umg?

[Everynone]

• wrap the text in a widget, use drag & drop

or

• wrap the text in a widget, use onMouseMove to shift it around in its container

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How to move a widget panel when I press the mouse button, and follow the mouse cursor

Here’s the thing - we can’t have the player controller do anything here; widgets and the controller do not like talking to each other and often don’t know what the other is doing with the input. Here are my wWindow’s Up / Down events for left mouse button: [309682-onmousedown.jpg] Above, the Grab Offset is where we clicked in that window - it’s later on used when we move it around. When grabbed, the window calls an event dispatcher that is picked up by main canvas where we drag the windows. …