I am following Introduction to Common UI tutorial, (around 1:08:00). While setting up the UI generic button common text, I can’t expose my Common Text block variable in the Graph Editor (the eye icon is always close and I can’t untoggle it). However in the tutorial, Michael Prinkle variant eye is active. Because of that, I can’t follow the tutorial beyond this point. Is there any bug in my editor? I will send screen shots of my Graph Editor.
Could you clarify what is stopping you from following the tutorial? As in, what can’t you access?
UE5 has a couple of visual only UI bugs; afaik, this is one of them. There was a discussion about something similar recently - I believe that’s what the consensus was.
I have the same problem and can’t continue following my tutrial either (Ryan Laley)
Why I cant follow the tutorial any further (in my case):
those variables need to be exposed in order to be accessable by the other widgets.
The goal is to make an inventory system (grid) and right now, the Icon and Textblock (Item ID and Quantity) won’t change and are always on default.
Could you demonstrate how you’re trying to access them? They do not appear in the context sensitive search?
Thanks for the quick answer, I found out my problem had a different cause, and i let myself get distracted by the fact that in the tutorial, (Ryan) he’s using UE5, too and he has the component public by default. I still don’t quite understand why that is though.
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Here’s the Link: Unreal Engine 5 Tutorial - Inventory System Part 6: Widget Setup - YouTube
This is the 3rd time I see this tut mentioned regarding this particular issue and each time it turns out to be a visual only glitch, which UE5 has quite a few of - like the infamous inherited vs implemented interface which are swapped around and, understandably, confuse the heck out of people…
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I don’t know if you have resolved your issue yet or not, but today I also looked into the tutorial and got stuck at the same part, the “Text Block” isn’t exposable, at least it is not letting you click on the “eye” to expose it. So I jumped on the internet and found your post/ question. This problem only seems to be a graphical/ engine bug, just click “save all” under “file” and close the whole project. When opening it again, the problem should be resolved, it still doesn’t let you click on the “eye” to expose it, but when you look into your “UI_MainMenu” (just like in the tutorial) you can check each button, and under “Default” you should be able to change the text of every button, that you have dragged into the vertical box.
I follow a German streamer (“The Sky”), as I am German and he regularly live streams his work, thus I thought, it could have been an engine bug, as he encountered them every once in a while.
You can get worked up about bugs like this, so I hope this helps, even if I am a little bit late to the party. It might still help people who will check the “Common UI” tutorial at a later point and run into the same issue.
kind regards
Justin
UE 5.3.2
Its not tho, you cant save the file even because the text cant be publically accessed
What do you even mean - save the file?