How would i go about creating a notepad that players can type into

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hi guys,
i’m working on a project for which i want the player to be able to write their own notes on story elements of the game. For this i would need the player to be able to press a button to open and close a “journal” as well as the player to be able to flip back and forth between pages. The notes the player made would also have to be saved and editable when the journal was open.

I have no idea how much of this is actually possible using blueprints and no idea where i would start. Any ideas?

Thanks

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Look into UMG. They have text boxes which you can use to capture text. You can overlay that onto a book image and apply the page turning behavior with the UMG blueprints.

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Yep text area in UMG, set the text to be bound to a variable which you save with the inbuilt savegame functionality.

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Thanks for your reply’s, I though it might have something to do with UMG, but didn’t want to spend too much time on the wrong path.

I’ve been thinking about this. I was trying to work out how you would store the correct text/writing for each page. My idea was to create two variables. One which got the page number, which then got the corresponding piece of text. How would you set this up?