How do I get Widget to Widget communication to work?

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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So my casting does not work. What is happening here is i have got the player to click on a difficulty level and it is setting the time for my main game UI timer to count down. I don’t know which object to link into the cast nodes, but all 4 here (Get player character/controller/pawn, and a variable linked to my desired blueprint) have failed.

Any help will be appreciated

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Where are you setting the value of your GameUI variable? If it doesnt have a value, it will always fail it’s cast.

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http://i.imgur.com/VRDDwlh.png

Just to the right, the cast to’s are linking into their targets with a 11mins and 11 seconds for easy (fails), 70 seconds for mid, and 30 for hard, all fail to cast.

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http://i.imgur.com/yAFAwoI.png

Just noticed that the minutes and seconds were the wrong way round, fixed it now.

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Ok, I’ll elaborate in a sec. I assume this is the event graph for the actual widget correct? Can you give me a full screenshot of the entire screen?

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http://i.imgur.com/kKmugej.png

Sorry for my inexperience, but what do you mean by “grab a reference to the component”?

The picture above is my result of slapping together this, thing. It still fails to cast. Can you elaborate further, I’m a bit stuck.

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http://i.imgur.com/74r0gwT.png

Player clicks on chosen difficulty setting

http://i.imgur.com/ywvxqHQ.png

Time setting is set and game begins

http://i.imgur.com/2et7GPK.png

http://i.imgur.com/DG38EDF.png

This is the gameUI widget. The Variable integers are on the side there and set to editable, and they are hooked up to this count down clock (showing 1 of 4 parts).

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Nevermind, I see it now, I’ll get back to you.

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See below for my new answer.

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Assuming that this is happening within your HuD Blueprint; I think the get node that you need is “Try get owning pawn”

EDIT: I find that removing context sensitive can help with finding what you need sometimes

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I have a Player Name text variable that’s public on my MyCharacter BP. This allowed me to take my MainMenu widget, that had a place to type a Player Name in, to then tell my HUD widget to display that Player Name variable as text since it was stored on MyCharacter I just casted to MyCharacter to get that variable between the 2 widgets.

Hope this helps.