Second Player cannot be controlled when window is inactive

Development Programming & Scripting Multiplayer & Networking
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Hi,
I am currently working on a 2-Player Splitscreen Game.
Whenever I start a 2-Player Level the Full Screen Window is not set to active but I can still control the First Player (with either Keyboard or a Gamepad).

The second Player can only be controlled if a Mousebutton is clicked inside the inactive window.

How can I set the window to active automatically or how can I let the Second Player get Control in an inactive Window?

I tried using ‘Show Mouse Cursor’ on/off but it didn’t help.

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I believe this was fixed, the fix will be in 4.8.

If yuour building from source you can try the fix out yourself as it’s quite trivial.

In :

 FSlateApplication::RegisterGameViewport(...)

add true as the last parameter on the following line:

 FReply Reply = FReply::Handled().SetUserFocus(InViewport, EFocusCause::SetDirectly, true);
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I am only using Blueprints for, but thanks for the answer.
I found another solution though. Just set Focus To Viewport in your Level Blueprint an the Second Player can be controlled right away.

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is there also an option to open another frame / window which holds camera output for a player or even just camere output? if yes how to do it?

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Sorry I don’t know about that. I think it would be better if you’ll post that as a new question. Because this question of mine was already solved here, so don’t excpect a lot of answers.