Unreal beginner here. I’m following a tutorial on creating menus in the editor. The tutorial begins by creating a new EditorUtilityWidget class, loads it in Visual Studio and proceeds to write the functions.
When I create the EditorUtilityClass it gives me an error, then if I try to build the project it fails.
I am using Unreal 5.2.1, the project I’m using is the blank game template project, for the project settings I chose C++. I’m using Visual Studio 2022. I am using Windows 10. I have all the necessary requirements installed for Visual Studio and Unreal to work together.
I have nothing else in the project. Right after creating the project, I created the editorUtilityWidget class.
I turned off live coding via the bottom right menu in the Unreal Editor, as I’ve seen others suggest this tip, but the problem persists.
After a lot of research and testing, I found the solution.
First, in the project’s build.cs file, I hadn’t added the correct dependencies.
I found this Editor Utility Widget and Plugin Creation tutorial. It explained the dependencies I needed were “UMG”, “UMGEditor” and “Blutility” as well as a few others.
But even though I successfully built the project with the EditorUtilityWidget class, when I tried to reparent the EditorUtilityWidget UI I was working on to the class I’d made, it wasn’t a selectable option.
So I made a blank plugin (the above link tells how to do this), added the dependencies to the build.cs file for the plugin, and when making the EditorUtilityWidget C++ class, chose to add it to my new plugin instead of my project ( IE: project_name (Realtime) ). Now, everything builds and my EditorUtilityWidget can inherit from the class I made.
I am still egregiously new to the beast that is Unreal so if someone has a better/different way of explaining this please feel free to enlighten me.
