Widget nightmare

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Hi there, I’m having an issue with a widget im creating to track the stats of my game (Wiki system).
I dynamically track consumables using two widgets (Wiki_Button and 1412 - my Inventory). The system works fine when toggling the Wiki system using a button, but I want to move the widget initialization logic to Event Construct to avoid recreating widgets multiple times. However, when I move the logic, the integer array values aren’t updating properly, and I’m stuck trying to understand why and I already spent almost a week on this so I’d appreciate any guidance or suggestions, please.

System Overview:

  • Wiki_Button Widget: Displays information about a single consumable (image texture and integer value showing the consumption count).
  • 1412 Widget: Dynamically creates 40 instances of Wiki_Button and arranges them in a grid using a custom function called UpdateStats.
  • Data Handling: The GameStats variable (a struct with 40 integers) is pulled from my character blueprint to track how many consumables have been used.

Issue:

The system works perfectly when using an event-based approach (i.e., clicking a button to toggle the visibility of the Wiki), and it updates the Wiki_Button widgets correctly. However, this creates the 40 widgets every time, which is not efficient. I want to move the logic to Event Construct so I can just update the stats and toggle visibility on and off… but when I do, the integer array values don’t update properly—they remain the same across all widgets.

I tried to destroy/unparent the widgets, but this wasn’t a good solution either. My goal is to create the widgets once and then simply hide/unhide them when toggling the Wiki system.

What I’ve Tried:

  • Moving the widget creation and UpdateStats call to Event Construct and using a toggle for visibility. However, the array values (from GameStats) aren’t updating correctly in Event Construct as they do in the button-click event.
  • Debugging showed that the array increments properly when consumables are used, but the widgets don’t reflect these updates when the code is moved to Event Construct.

1412:

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Wiki_Button:

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P.S: The GameStats (coming from an interface from my character BP) works fine as when I debug with print string and tracks each integers are updated correctly. Thank you for your time