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Unreal Engine 4 Scripting with C++ Cookbook
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Unreal Engine 4 Scripting with C++ Cookbook

by Stephen Whittle, William Sherif
October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
452 pages
9h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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UMG keyboard UI shortcut keys

Every user interface needs shortcut keys associated with it. To program these into your UMG interface, you can simply wire-up certain key combinations to an Action mapping. When the Action triggers, just invoke the same Blueprints function that the UI button itself triggers.

Getting ready

You should have a UMG interface created already, as shown in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

  1. In Settings | Project Settings | Input, define a new Action mapping for your hot key event, for example, HotKey_UIButton_Spell.
  2. Wire up the event to your UI's function call either in Blueprints or in C++ code.

How it works…

Wiring up an Action Mapping with a short circuit to the function called by the UI will allow you to implement hot keys ...

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