{"id":1066,"date":"2022-05-23T21:40:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2022-05-24T00:35:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T00:35:42","slug":"ue4-referring-to-a-widget-in-your-blueprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/unreal\/ue4-referring-to-a-widget-in-your-blueprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Unreal Quick Tip – Referring to a widget in your blueprint"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I struggled over this for a while and then found the answer. <\/p>\n

Say you have a Blueprint and within your BP you have a widget. If you want to call a function that’s in your widget from your blueprint, then it’s slightly more complicated than just dragging the widget component into your function from the Components window. There are two extra steps<\/p>\n

Step1 – drag reference from Components Window<\/p>\n

Step2 – Get User Widget Object<\/p>\n

Step3 – Cast to your widget BP<\/p>\n

Step4 – Call your function in the widget BP<\/p>\n

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I struggled over this for a while and then found the answer.  Say you have a Blueprint and within your BP you have a widget. If you want to call a function that’s in your widget from your blueprint, then it’s slightly more complicated than just dragging the widget component into your function from the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[122,126,45,121],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unreal","tag-blueprint","tag-quicktip","tag-unreal","tag-widgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}