"OnConstruction" is not triggered when dragging my C++ actor around the level. Seemed like a bug?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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I’m using 4.8.1.
Editing location through property panel does trigger the “OnConstruction” method, but dragging in the viewport does not.
Am I missing some setting or just it is a bug?

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I think in C++ terms that’s actually not a bug, but I’m not sure…

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Editing through property panel and dragging leading to different results doesn’t make any sense.

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Have the same problem, using 4.8.2.

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Ohh okay. It might be that when you set the property, it triggers ‘PostEditProperty’ and possibly re-creates the object or runs the constructor from there. Dragging in the viewport might just be a more simple SetWorldLocation. Honestly, I’m not sure without checking but that’s where I’d start looking.

I do know that you can drag blueprints around in the viewport and it will fire off the construction script, though.

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i was curious about this.
Say i wanted a bool, and when true it would add a static mesh component to the actor.
In blueprint OnConstruction this would be easy and changing the value would result in the mesh appearing and disappearing.

How can i achieve a similar result in C++, i have tried using PostEditProperty.