How to make working notebook/notes system in ue4?

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I just saw you marked it as resolved. Was going to get back to you and it slipped my mind… Bugger.

Ya,for example when you open a notepad
after some typing some text the cursor
will be at the beginning. I wanna
implement similar to that(if i type
something and close it and then open
the same the cursor should be at the
beginning of the first line).

Does it automatically appear in the second line?

I think this might be a limitation of the UMG at the point; as in, you may not have direct control over the position of the caret. A couple of things you could try:

  • figure out why the cursor goes to the second line in the first place - user action or automatic. If it’s user action, there might be a way to catch that action and override it (like you did with enter). If it automatically goes to the second line, perhaps the onPreviewKey is not passing Handled / Unhandled correctly.
  • clean up the text - convert to string, trim trailing spaces, put the trimmed text back in the box
  • manually set focus to the widget when opening the page; in theory, this should place the cursor at the beginning / end of the text line, rather than in a new one
  • unlikely, but perhaps the cursor going to the second line is the result of text wrapping?

Judging by your description, I’d say there is an issue with passing Handled / Unhandled - could you show a screenshot of that? Somehow I feel that the box still processes that key. But please do correct me if I’m mistaken.

the cursor should be at the
beginning of the first line

I’m not getting why you’d want that, shouldn’t it be at the end of the line - so the user can continue typing where they left off? Or is this a conscious design choice, which is, of course, understandable.

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Thanks a lot.I’ll try and get back to you asap.

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hey,i tried checking up the size of vertical box when the punch was made. It works and says the page is full if the size exceeds the specified size(Ex:size=300). The following screenshot is attached below. But the one issue i got was if you try to edit the(give input) text boxes then that box keeps on expanding. Is there any way you can stop reading the input when it reaches the end of the line so no further expansion occurs?

I’ve uploaded the video below. Just want to stop reading the input after the end of first line(Last S).

@ Does it automatically appear in the second line?

Ya it appears at the second line if text box contains 2 lines or more number of text. I thought the notepad cursor appearance style(at the beginning of the line) would add more sophistication. I’ll try what you mentioned and get back to you later on that.

Thank you.
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Hi Everyone,

There’s already a finalised blueprint and a YouTube video for it here:

Cheers
J