Hi, I have a Main_Menu widget that starts music, when I click the Options menu and hit Return the music starts again, duplicating the music track, this is because of the ‘Event On Initialized’ event, but how do I make it so that the music only plays once when returning to the Main Menu? Start Musi…

Perhaps this will help, this is set up in the way described above and plays ominous music as we navigate the menus: wSwitcher.zip Google Drive file. See if you can crack it. vUE_5.3.0 Disclaimer: comms can be set up much better but should be manageable a…

:white_check_mark: how are you adding the widget to the viewport? what’s the value of Menu Music? the Return Value is not connected, the reference is invalid

Ah, it was because I was calling the old widget instead of the new one that acts as the widget swither

Thanks for your help on fixing this, really appreciate your lightning fast responses too! :slight_smile:

Sorry I spoke too soon, it still duplicates when I return from Options Return value is connected

Don’t hook it to initialise then. Have a custom event and call it when needed. The thing is that I see what there is duplicate? This should never ever fire more than once since this widget just sits and does nothing else but controls other bits. [broke] Do you re-add this whole thing to the view…

Doesn’t start all when I use a custom event [NoMusic]

Because Custom Event needs calling. They give you a chance to start / stop when you need it. I am a bit confused by what is needed, see above.

My screenshot is in the W_Core widget

If you add it once to the viewport, it will play the music once. Could you give us a breakdown of how the whole things is supposed behave: the player opens the main and the music start playing we go to options (the music keeps playing) we go to settings (the music keeps playing) we return to mai…

I feel like the issue is in the sub menu widgets, see below of options each widget has the same setup [BadFeelingAboutThis]

Menu widget fires music multiple times

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Promethean (Promethean) September 15, 2023, 2:04pm 19

Doesn’t start all when I use a custom event