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As of UE 5.4, the Common UI button (UCommonButtonBase) still doesn’t support direct focus settings. This is because UCommonButtonBase is derived from UUserWidget, which supports focusing, but doesn’t direct the focus to the underlying button itself automatically. However, you can still set the focus on the button by performing a “deep” focus on the Slate button. Here’s how you can achieve this: /** * Sets the focus on the button * This function performs the "deep" focus on the Common UI button, which means that it will set the focus on the button itself * This is useful since UCommonButtonBase is derived from UUserWidget, which doesn't support focus when setting it directly */ UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable, Category = "mod....

In Unreal Engine, you can determine the currently focused widget in both Slate and UMG UI systems. Slate To get the currently focused Slate widget, you can use the following code snippet: // Instead of 0, you can pass the user index if you have multiple users TSharedPtr<SWidget> FocusedSlateWidget = FSlateApplication::Get().GetUserFocusedWidget(0); UMG Getting the currently focused UMG widget is a bit more involved, since there is no direct function to get it or the place where it is stored....

This brief article addresses the question of how to cast one Slate widget to another in Unreal Engine. Imagine you have an SWidget widget wrapped in a shared pointer like this: TSharedPtr<SWidget> MyWidgetPtr; If you want to cast it, for example, to an SSpacer, your code might look like this: TSharedPtr<SSpacer> MySpacerPtr = StaticCastSharedPtr<SSpacer>(MyWidgetPtr); It’s important to keep in mind that you should verify whether the shared pointer is valid before using it....