Pressing a UMG button releases every currently pressed input

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Hello!

Pressing a umg widget button will trigger a release on every other currently pressed input event (mouse or keyboard), and yet the actual input release will trigger a release a second time.

I found this because I need to press a keyboard key, which pops up a umg menu, with some buttons to set a variable, and then on the keyboard key release do something based off that variable.

But pressing the umg button will trigger the release of every other input. Is this a bug? is this by design? if so, how can I avoid this behavior?

I have the Input mode set to Game and Input, focusing the umg in need to interact with.

Thanks.

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to avoid widget buttons interfering with held keys, make sure IsFocusable is set to false, in your button’s details panel.

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Yup, that’d be it, thank you very much :heart:

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Thank you very much. For so long I could not understand why this is happening!)

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I’m 6 years late. Thank you very much, this solved my old problem.

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I doesn’t matter what I do for EntryWidgets. They always either Complete my input or Release key. I can’t for the life of me figure this out.

Example: If I’m holding E key or input action then click on an EntryWidget in TileView it spams Input action or releases my key press depending on whichever I’m using. This is driving me crazy. I keep thinking its something I’m doing wrong so I stared a clean project but still does the same behavior.

I’ve tried overiding inputs in multiple places to see if I can keep it from completing my input (or release key) but no joy. I need help… :frowning:

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This worked for me.

In the project settings, uncheck “Should Flush Pressed Keys on Viewport Focus Lost”

Found in this post thanks to @bigstumpy