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Tooltip Rich Text Decorator

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#1

Hi all,

I have a requirement that should be fairly straightforward but tackling it has proven difficult.

In my game I will have some text that, for example, look like this

“Hello there, welcome to {PlaceName}”

I want {PlaceName} to be replaced with a variable from a stringtable at runtime, and the user can mouse over that world, but only that word, to get a tooltip that gives them a definition.

I sort of got this working by making a special tooltip text widget, but I need it to be inline so that I can get wrapping working seamlessly on big dialogue boxes.

My understanding from Advanced Text Styling with Rich Text Block - Unreal Engine is that the ideal way to achieve this is with a RichTextBlock and a custom decorator. If anyone has any experience or other suggestions on how to achieve this I would be greatly thankful!

#2

I suppose more succinctly the question is, how does one derive the decorator to allow the ability to inline widgets in a rich text block. It is remarkably difficult to find examples of the decorator in use!

#3

Did you ever figure it out?

#4

Sorry for the bump, but I’m curious if anyone knows how to do this. It’s something that CRPGs are doing, like Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny, and it seems like a good way of giving more information during dialogue without needing to shoehorn definitions and background info into the dialogue itself.