Changing the z order not changing the widgets

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Hi, I have a button event configured on a player controller to create a widget and render it on the players screen. This works fine. I have a function within that widget’s blueprint that is called on any mouse click and sets the z order to 1 + the current highest z order of any widget (recorded as an int under the player controller). However even though the zorder changes on a widget, it does not then get rendered over another widget.

It seems as if setting the zorder when creating the widget on the UI (using the z order input pin) works, but any changes after its initially rendered aren’t reflected.

Is there another method I should be using to get widgets to render over each other during runtime?

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Nope. All you can do is either toggle the visiblity from collapsed to visbile or destroy and create or remove from parnet and add to viewport.

A nice macro library function would be great for this or a function in your PC or Char class just make a function input a widget, and then remove from parent, call it whenever you need a respawn

Else you have to change the values on a tick in your widget class.

Hope this helps
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