Widget Exposed Variable Fails to Capture Value Which Is Set During Construction

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I am constructing my widget

This is a List View and that’s not how they work, you never add widgets to list views directly. You add data objects instead and the list view instantiates the widgets for you. Better have a look at a List View tutorial.

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A crude random crash course example:

Creating a combat log in Blueprint

No problem, if you want to experiment with the List View instead: create an Object class blueprint in the content browser with an exposed text variable - it will be used to store data in the list view, called Entry Data below. once you have it, you can do this in the wLogLine’s class settings: [linewithlistviewinterface.jpg] The Implemented Interfaces bit on the left is the critical part here! It allows you to pull the data from a list view object and assign it to the widget’s variable. Th…