Widget opens once

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I have made a widget with a button close (sluiten)
If my pawn overlappes a trigger box, the widget is opened with the controller grip-Left.

That works once, but after hover on button close, the widget never appears again with the Left-grip button on the controller…

I have set the BP on event-tick.

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Anyone an idea what’s going wrong?
Thanks in advance!

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You’re hiding a widget but showing a root component of an actor. This means that the widget is still hidden when the actor is made visible. A widget and an actor are 2 separate entities with individual visibility settings.

You will need to choose:

  • either show / hide just a widget
  • or show / hide the entire BP Color actor
  • or show / hide a widget component (if you’re using one)

Is the actor using a widget component? How is the widget created?

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Thanks for the quick reply!!

The BP color actor is using the widget component. The widget is made by simply new widget and then placed in the BP Color.

If I want to hide the entire BP-Color blueprint, how can I do that in the widgets BP?
Do I have to cast to the Color BP?

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Thanks again, I set up the second BP nodes, see attachment, but it’s not working in my case…

The widget is set in the BP_Colormenu Blueprint as invisible, because I don’t want to show up the widget on beginplay.

What do I wrong?

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The easiest way would be to show / hide just the widget:

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If I want to hide the entire BP-Color
blueprint, how can I do that in the
widgets BP? Do I have to cast to the
Color BP?

  • don’t do anything in the widget, don’t hide self

Instead:

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The widget is set in the BP_Colormenu
Blueprint as invisible, because I
don’t want to show up the widget on
beginplay.

As I said, do not modify the widget in any way. Otherwise we’re back to where we started - you said you, ideally, wanted to operate on the actor only, but now the widget is invisible.

Set the actor to hidden on Begin Play instead. Or simply:

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Now it will not show up when the game starts but can be shown with the controller. Its button will the actor - do not that the current button event is for Hovering rather than Clicking - but this may be intentional, for course.

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There is still something wrong in my setup. I set the widget in the BP actor to visible and hiden in game. In the editor I now see the widget, not in VR… so far so good.

But the Left grip doesn’t fire up the widget.

Sorry for the questions, I am quite new to Unreal!

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No worries, the engine is a beast.

How are the widget components settings, like this:

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If you put a Prints String node after the Grip fires, does it print? Is the widget component in screen or world space:

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  • what is the chance that as soon as the widget shows up - the onHovered immediately hides it? Perhaps disconnect it for now to test things out?
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Thanks for the quick replies every time. You are my Hero!!

I restarted the engine and it now all work perfectly!!! I am a happy man.
And indeed the engine is in the beginning overwhelming with all those nodes and functions.

But this part I now understand and it will be used in the future…

Thanks again!