Is there a good tutorial for creating widgets in C++?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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I’ve seen plenty of Widget Blueprint tutorials, but I can’t find any good tutorials for creating UI using primarily (if not completely) in C++.

Am I chasing unicorns or does such a thing not exist?

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Check the mentioned Links to create widgets in C++

http://rock-robotics.org/stable/documentation/advanced_tutorials/300_vizkit_widget.html
http://cegui.org.uk/wiki/Performing_custom_rendering_at_the_right_time
http://cegui.org.uk/wiki/Use_your_custom_widget_in_place_of_CEGUI_standard_one

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Well, there’s two approaches.
SLATE (widgets are written with this stuff) and the primitive canvas HUD.
The former has ****-all in terms of documentation. The latter works, but requires you to do everything manually.
I’ve switched from widgets to canvas HUD, albeit in blueprint instead of C++ during my prototyping stage, because widgets really didn’t allow me to do what I wanted to do.
I have been surprised at how easy it is to work with this kind of HUD. The hardest part was to find out that the ingame mouse cursor is a property of the player controller and that the only way to get a hardware cursor is apparently to change the engine source.

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Vb4, the canvas HUD, what documentation and tutorials do you recommend for this?

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While looking up some of the basic tutorials provided by epic, it seems that my HUD doesn’t allow for a constructor in the same way as Epic’s tutorial. Has something changed in regards to how AHUDs work since then that’s not documented anywhere?

This is the tutorial I’ve found:
https://youtu.be/yCqsbXS9yRg

Time is roughly 3:30 into video.

In the video, no constructor is declared within the header, but is defined in a way that’s unfamiliar to me in the sour c e file. This does work for her, yet mimicking it fails for me. Can someone please offer assistance with this?