UMG: How to support widget active focus with keyboard and gamepad

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This post is old but it’s a top Google search result.

I found similar to @Micky you may have to check the button every tick. Micky is keeping the button layout in a data structure; you can also just have buttons query themselves only.

Why do my buttons not show a hovered state when using a gamepad?

I searched for a long time and then finally found a video that made sense to me. Now I have mouse, keyboard, and gamepad controller support! Building on Eve’s solution this is how I ended up doing it: While the buttons do receive keyboard and gamepad focus, they don’t show a hovered/focused state. So you have to manually ask the button each tick if it “Has Any User Focus”. And, if not it still might be hovered, so you have to ask it “Is Hovered”. Step 1: create a User Interface Widget Blueprin…