Update widget text variable through interaction?

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Hey all,

I have a widget blueprint that I am using as a 3D widget in another blueprint, as the screen of a monitor.

There are two individual button blueprint actors in my scene, that I can interact with.

What I’m trying to figure out is how I can update text in my widget, whenever I interact with one of these buttons, as well as having different text updates based on which button is pressed.

I’m currently stuck in my character BP, LineTracing and calling a function in my blueprint interface, if my trace hits one of the buttons. But then I’m not sure where to go from there.

Do I need to set my Widget as my target when calling my BPI function?
But then do I somehow need to call my Widget Blueprint, within my character BP?

This might be a bit unclear, so in it’s simplest form, I want to have text on a 3D Widget in my level, and have text within it to update based on which of 2 buttons I press. Almost like a back and forth dialogue, with the in game screen asking question, and me replying with only 2 buttons as answers.

Cheers

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Hi @flossyahova,

This is more or less how I’d go about this:

  1. Have a text element on your widget (I assume you already have this)
  2. Have a text or string variable on your Character BP, or somewhere else centrally available that the widget can read from
  3. Depending on if you hit button 1 or button 2, update the text variable on your character to reflect what you would want to show on the widget
  4. Inside the widget, on your text element, creating a new binding for the actual text content
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  5. Implement the binding function to get the variable you care about from your Character BP, or wherever else you choose to store it, and return it
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  6. Now the text in your widget should always reflect what you set in your character based on which button is pressed

I hope this is what you were going for, and that it proves helpful.

Thanks,
Hayden

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Hello Hayden,

Thanks for the reply. I would really appreciate it if you could develop part 5. a bit more, let’s say my dialogue lines are in a data table, how would I call these dialogue lines in the text variable binding from my Widget Blueprint?

Cheers