Widget Switch > How does one update the Active Widget Index dynamically?

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Hello all! I’ve spun my wheels on this long enough, so I’m turning the community now. In my test scene, I’m trying to create a button the you walk up to, activate, a popup dialog device pops up with a menu display. Within this menu, I’ve added a widget switcher with three sub menus. As of now, when I test the scene, I can walk up to the button, activate it, and a string is printed via my Verse script as it’s subscribed to the InteractedWithEvent. Where I’m stuck is how on earth do I increment/decrement/set the Active Widget Index on the Widget Switcher? I’ve not found anything related to a Graph to do visual programming where I can update this, nor have I found a way to do this via Verse.

I have a reference to the popup_dialog_device, which is using my Widget Bluepint class as an override, but I’ve yet to figure out how to get a ref. to my Widget Switcher.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Extra context: The plan is to eventually handle tab-left and tab-right button events to increment/decrement the index and render different submenus in the Widget Switcher.

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I’ve tried something else, but I’m still running into blockers. Instead, I’ve created models for the directories where my Widget Blueprint resides. I assign this WBP to a variable in my verse script manually by accessing the asset via modules (UI.Widgets.WBP_MyWidget). When the player activates a button in the scene, I add the WBP to the PlayerUI. This all works, but I don’t know of a way to find a child widget within my WBP.

If I could get a reference to the buttons in my WBP and the Widget Switcher, I could subscribe to OnClick events and update the switchers’ Active Widget Index.

Is there any way to find the children of a widget blueprint, even if it’s via the widget name?