How to override 'Gamepad Face Button Bottom' binding of the UI (so it doesn't behave like left click)?

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When navigating UI with gamepad, pressing GamepadFaceButtonBottom behaves like clicking LMB. Is there a way to override this behavior? I want to be able to control UI with gamepad, while still having button A on XBox to do something else unrelated to the UI.

I know CommonUI adds a CommonAnalogCursor, enabled by default, which listens for the “Virtual_Accept” key. It is initialized in InputCoreTypes.cpp by calling FPlatformInput::GetGamepadAcceptKey();, which returns EKeys::Gamepad_FaceButton_Bottom;.

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Im facing this same issue, when i press A button in game the first time it acts as mouse click and holds it forever

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It is fixed by ShouldVirtualAcceptSimulateMouseButton() starting from version UE 5.4

The following solution is only applicable for older versions of UE 5.4

Until Epic provides a separate method to disable Virtual Accept, I have temporarily addressed it by adding the following hack code to the initialization function without modifying the engine code:

#include "InputCoreTypes.h"

UMyGameInstance::UMyGameInstance()
{
    // This is a hack to disable Virtual Accept
    // Associated with FCommonAnalogCursor::HandleKeyDownEvent and FAnalogCursor::HandleKeyDownEvent
    FKey& virtual_key = const_cast<FKey&>(EKeys::Virtual_Accept);
    virtual_key = EKeys::Invalid;
}
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This one work for me! as I only apply this as temporary fix, but how do you revert the virtual_accept back to it initial value ( enable it ) during runtime ?