What I am trying to do is have the Tab key open and close the player’s inventory UI in an FPS game. I was hoping to accomplish this simple task through the blueprints but it has turned out to be a wild goose chase. I have searched the forums, the answerhub, I have watched youtube tutorials, and I’ve…

Check my post here: [image] Close menu with same button as opening Hello! I am new to blueprints and appreciate all help:) I am currently working on a menu with the setup listed under. The menu opens when you push M on the keyboard. I was wondering if there is a easy way to close the m…

At this point you may want to consider finding more step-by-step tutorials and following through them to get a better understanding of the engine and how to use it. Game development is hard. It’s a lot easier to imagine a project than create it, and even with fancy tools like Unreal Engine, you ca…

Thank you for the answer. This method is working for one widget, but not another. There are two issues. The first is that when the pause menu widget is brought up, the game inputs do not clear. So, for example, if the player is walking forwards and presses the pause menu key, the character continu…

[image] ChefBoyardee1138: the character continues to walk forwards while the pause menu is up. It’s and old / known issue - call this before bringing up the menu and changing Input Mode - may help. Do tell! [image] the On Key Down override doesn’t seem to be working for the pause menu widg…

This fixed both issues: [image] So I guess the keyboard was still focused on the game controller thus not clearing the input and not allowing the widget to detect key presses. Not sure why one widget needs this command and not the other, but at least it works for now.

Open/Close UI menu with key press?

Development Programming & Scripting UI

Everynone (Everynone) January 13, 2022, 4:59pm 3

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Not stupid at all, actually. It’s just an input processing thing.