why is interaction: receive hardware input disabled when placing a widget in an actor blueprint

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Is this what you’re trying to do:

Getting Mouse Position During Drag and Drop UMG

Because it's undocumented, arcane knowledge obtainable only by those knowing a secret handshake. The below assumes you have overridden and using a Game Mode, a Player Controller and created a custom Drag & Drop Operation. in the Player Controller A Custom Event converts screen space to world space via deprojection and sets actor’s position: [image] in the Custom Drag & Drop Operation blueprint Event Dragged spits out screen space coordinates and feeds them to an Event Dispatcher, we…

If you do not need the dragged widget to also show while placing the building, there’s no need for drag and drop. Just pass the focus back to the viewport as soon as you want to move the actor around. This can also be achieved by juggling Input Modes.