UProperty drop down selection (Is it possible?)

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hello, in order to explain my question I have to give an example;

What I want to do is create a property of “Type” which when edited in blueprint or details is edited by a drop down menu of choices rather than manual input. Is this possible? If so, how could I construct it? I am creating an “Interactable Object” which changes it’s interaction functionality based on it’s type, examples are: Destructing, moving, opening etc…

I know that for more specific functionality I’d need to handle the interactions via a child class but that’s not what I’m trying to do.

Many thanks.

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You could make an enum and let the objects have some sort of AI behavior and based on the type do specific functionality. If you tag the enum properly in c++ it should show in the editor with dropdown.

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Thanks, I created an enum as suggested and used it as so:

UENUM()
namespace EInteractableTypes {
	enum Type {
		IO_DESTRUCT				UMETA(DisplayName = "Destructing"),
		IO_MOVE					UMETA(DisplayName = "Moving"),
		IO_OPEN					UMETA(DisplayName = "Opening")
	};
}

/** The type of object the interactable is */
	UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite, Category = "INTERACTABLE")
	TEnumAsByte<EInteractableTypes::Type> InteractableType;

Thank you for the help.

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If it worked mark as answered :slight_smile:

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My apologies, I thought I had.