Adding my own buttons to BPW_MapMenu
I'm looking for some help from somebody who knows about UI/widget modding. I am attempting to add some buttons to the BPW_MapMenu hierarchy. Specifically, the map menu has the "Show Stamps on Map" checkbox button at the bottom and I'm trying to add some of my own buttons alongside it. I've attached an unreal editor screenshot of the hierarchy I'm talking about, with the button I'm trying to create siblings for highlighted.
My approach has been to create a UVerticalBox containing my button (starting with one) and add it to the [Overlay] widget, so the vbox is itself a sibling to the mShowStampsButton. But nothing I added to the vbox shows up. I am inexperienced with UI programming, so I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or just falling into common pitfalls. Here's some code to show what I'm doing:
I looked at Cartograph's code to add these buttons next to the show/hide menu button using an HBox and that worked fine, so I know the buttons actually get created and work. It's getting them into the BPW_MapMenu hierarchy I need help with.
My approach has been to create a UVerticalBox containing my button (starting with one) and add it to the [Overlay] widget, so the vbox is itself a sibling to the mShowStampsButton. But nothing I added to the vbox shows up. I am inexperienced with UI programming, so I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or just falling into common pitfalls. Here's some code to show what I'm doing:
I looked at Cartograph's code to add these buttons next to the show/hide menu button using an HBox and that worked fine, so I know the buttons actually get created and work. It's getting them into the BPW_MapMenu hierarchy I need help with.
Solution
To recap the solution, rather than piece together widgets in C++, I made the whole widget in UE and then used Bind on BP Function: Construct to find and insert the widget at runtime, but only because widget blueprint hooks didn't work (the widget only got inserted on the first map screen open... there's a quirk there that somebody might want to sort out... I'd do it if I had more time right now). Then I had to sort out button layout and alignment, which yeshjho helped with.
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