Input Event while mouse is hovering widget?

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I’m making an inventory system, and I’m trying to make it so when you press a key SPACE bar for example, it does nothing, but when you have your cursor above an item in the inventory and press SPACE it will use the item, I only need help on how I can detect both the cursor hovering and the key press event, the rest I have figured out. Thx for your time.

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  • make the widget Focusable and ensure that at least 1 element is set to Visible
  • give it focus onMouseEnter and remove it onMouseLeave
  • override onKeyDown to intercept a keystroke and check which key was pressed
  • if the right key was pressed, execute your action
  • optionally, return Unhandled so the keystroke can tunnel to anything else that might need it
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Thx so much for your answer it solved my problem I had no clue where to even begin on something like that. I’m still new to ue4 development.