MenuAnchor - Get Widgets of Menu Class

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Hi,
I was wondering if there was any way to get the Widgets that are contained in a UserWidget that is opened via a MenuAnchor from another UserWidget.

So say for example, I have a Main Menu and when i press a “Quit Game” Button, another Userwidget opens via MenuAnchor. In this new UserWidget there’s two Buttons with “yes” and “no”.
Now what I want is to have a reference to those two buttons in my Main Menu.

I’ve tried it via MenuAnchor->MenuClass->GetDefaultObject<UUserWidget>()->WidgetTree, but the Widgettree is empty, I guess because it’s a class reference and not an object reference?

I’ve also tried iterating through MenuAnchor->MenuClass->Children, which gives me the Buttons and all other widgets, however only as UFields, and I do not know how to cast them to UWidgets again, or get them as UWidgets.

Is there a “fix” to my two approaches? Or is there maybe a whole another way?
Help would be very much appreciated :slight_smile:

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is there no way?

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Yes, by default object version of WidgetTree would be empty.

Have you looked at using GetWidgetFromName()?

Otherwise, what is stopping you from using Blueprints to handle this?

Alternatively, send a reference to the MenuAnchor to the other UserWidget.
Get it to create the Yes & No options, then add them as children ot the MenuAnchor reference, and keep a reference to the Yes/No options.

I do something similar to this, but using Blueprints.
Same MenuAnchor - different content depending on which user widget I want to use it.

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hey thanks for the GetWidgetFromName() tip