Is Hovered not working while holding Mouse Button

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hello,

I’m having a button appear near the mouse button while RMB is held, when this button is hovered over I’d like it to expand and have several other buttons appear.

However, using a Print String connected to Is Hovered, I found out that the Is Hovered actually does not work (returns false no matter what) when you are holding down either mouse button. Any way around this?

2

Well, it’s looking to see if something is hovering over the button and not pressed down. I’ve never seen anyone try to hold a button down and then hover over it. It pretty much defeats the point of Hover/Pressed/Released in UMG.

3

I’m going for a hold RMB to open the menu, release to pick an option kind of system. Is there any other way to do this in blueprints or should I write it myself?

4

Why are you going to have the RMB to open a menu? Why do that to your player?

5

+1. IsHovered also doesn’t work when you are dragging something over the widget (using the native drag and drop system, with mouse held down), which is a problem if you’re making an inventory and want to highlight the slot you’re hovering over.

6

I gave an answer to a similar question. This may work for you as well

7

Ever heard of a context menu?

8

I like the answer of plojnitza. I use the events now (instead of checking on tick if it “isHovered”)

For my purpose I used the events for cards. When I hover over a card it should be lifted a little bit and when I unhover, it will be moved to the original location. The problem which occured on my end, is when I then clicked on the card
it moved to the original location despite it was hovered.

Solution: I fixed this by overwriting “OnMouseButtonDown”.

Good Luck!

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I like the answer of plojnitza. I use the events now (instead of checking on tick if it “isHovered”)

For my purpose I used the events for cards. When I hover over a card it should be lifted a little bit and when I unhover, it will be moved to the original location. The problem which occured on my end, is when I then clicked on the card
it moved to the original location despite it was hovered.

Solution: I fixed this by overwriting “OnMouseButtonDown”.

Good Luck!