UMG Textbox: insert Character

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Hey,

I can add a textbox to my widget, my widget to my HUD. Enabling the cursor, I can click into that box and the keyboard focus is set automatically. I´m able to type in where ever I want, everything working out of the box.

I´m working on a Virtual Reality project and need to use a textbox for inserting strings (creating save file name).
For VR I created a widget that contains a keyboard. On press of a button a event dispatcher is called that sends the corresponding KeyStructure. I can now TextBox->GetText->ToString->Append, Textbox->SetText. Works fine as it is. But how would I go about inserting a character between others: “Hllo”->“Hello”? I can´t figure out how to get the position of the text cursor.

Another possibility, which would be the prefered as well, would be: faking keyboard input. Like OnButtonPress->SendToInputStream.

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Ok, there is a tutorial for it. But how to do it is far away from how you would do it out of the box.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/UMG/HowTo/VirtualKeyboards/ActorSetup/index.html

Thanks for the tutorial anyway.

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What became of this tutorial? The link gives a 404 error and I can’t figure out the search words to find it.