Widget Z-Order, Mouse/Touch interaction

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Good day.

I have added a Virtual Joystick to my game, which was initially blocked when any other UMG Widget would be active. I solved this by setting the widget Z-orders lower than the Joystick ( Z-Order of : - 21). However my mouse and touch inputs no longer fire the buttons on the Widgets after changing the z- values. I can still select buildings and other pawns with a visibility trace channel using either mouse or touch, which activates the UMG, however I cannot interact with the buttons. Also, I have added a child canvas panel to the widgets, and made all buttons, images ect children of the child canvas panel, and set “hit Test Unseen”

Assistance or advise would be greatly appreciated.

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Running into same problem in 4.18.

  • using custom mouse cursor
  • input mode set to Game and UI
  • custom mouse cursor widget set to “Hit Test Invisible” but it is still blocking button hits if the Z-order is higher than the button
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I am also dealing with this issue 4.26

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same problem in 5.2

tho it was all working fine for 3 months till this randomly started happening

this forum was 5 years ago but did you find a solution?

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found a solution-

the problem was when I change the visibility of any widget it causes the joystick to just not work.

For me instead of using visibility I started using Widget switcher everywhere, but this might be hard to fix for you.