Making events available in macros

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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We are led to believe that events don’t work in macros.

Indeed, you can’t create an event while inside a macro, and the editor won’t let you place events inside a macro, nor will it allow you to collapse a selection of nodes into a macro if that selection contains an event.

However, if you collapse a bunch of nodes (with an event) into a collapsed graph and THEN promote that graph into a macro, the event will happily reside within the macro and function as expected.

So the question is, is there a reason why we are not allowed to do this in a more straightforward way?

My main issue is that this trick doesn’t work in macro libraries, are you’re already inside a macro and thus can’t create and bind dispatcher events from there.

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To answer my own question, the reason is that you can’t have several instances of an event in the same event graph (understandably).

So while the trick I mentioned for the macro would work, you wouldn’t be able to reuse that macro.

In that case it looks like the editor shouldn’t let you promote a collapsed graph to a macro if that graph contains an event.