How to confirm Steam Connection has been made

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Please bear with me as this is my first post and I will include as many details as I can.

Goal:
To have a “User Extended” Widget (which is my main menu) display a connection status (check box) for steam. The box will be checked if the connection is confirmed. This can/should be done via a variable, but I’m just dipping in the pond here.

Steps performed thus far:

  • I have successfully integrated the Steam SDK v136 in to my project using the Online Subsystem Steam tutorial on the hub
  • I have successfully followed the tutorial of creating a C++ Widget Parent class that my UMG widget is a child of
  • My Game (more like utility for steam workshop uploading); launches directly to my Main Menu.
    Up to this point, if I launch the game, everything looks staged, and my Steam is integrated perfectly. For example, shift-tab works to bring up the Steam Overlay.

Issue:

My problem occurs when I start trying to make code in the cpp file for the Parent Widget Class that my UMG object is a child of.
I’m trying to create a function/blueprint that my widget can use to get a state of the Steam Client. Something like a boolean returning true/false if the user is logged in.

I followed the steps in this tutorial that provided code for doing just such a check: Steam, Using Online Subsystem

I’ve included the online.h and onlinesubsystem.h headers.
The problem is that the compile fails on the lines

EOnlineStatus ASteamHandler::getPlayerOnline(class APlayerController* PlayerController)

ELoginStatus::Type l = ion->GetIdentityInterface()->GetLoginStatus(PlayerController->Player->GetControllerId());

Due to that it cannot resolve the name “ASteamHandler”

Any thoughts?

Edit:
While back tracking my steps for my post, I also came across this article Steam workshop; which I will review later, as I’m done for the evening. It looks promising, but what I’ve read on the other tutorials so far; infer that I should not try to interact with the Steam API’s directly, but rather work through the OnlineSubsystem within UE.

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Look like you need to learn some C++ basics since error is really obviues. “getPlayerOnline” is just example of a function, just copy pasting won’t work, you need to declare function in header file first. Make a class (can be any UObject) and declere function inside header file and class decleration:

UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable,Category="Online")
static EOnlineStatus GetPlayerOnline(class APlayerController* PlayerController);

“static” makes function callable without need of object instance (“Target” pin). And then you can use that code just insted ASteamHandler use name of a class you using

Also by UE4 conventions all first letter of function name should be upper case “GetPlayerOnline”

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Excellent! My first draft at implementing last night did not go so well, but I blame the late hour.

I’ll re-attempt and follow-up with the results, as you said, I still have much to learn about C++

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So after learning more c++ and UE basics, plus your comment about making the function declarations “Static”. I’ve completely gone a different route, but have what I needed accomplished.

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I noticed, I never marked this as answered…

Something to note here.

  1. I had changed the SDK used by the engine; which would invalidate a lot of the OnlineSubsystem wrappers Epic built for us. So, I interacted with the Steam APIs directly, instead of the UE SubSystem functions.

That being said, it was very easy to have a simple C++ function that could be called from BluePrint, check the state of Steam to see if it successfully initialized or not, and return the result.

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is there a way to do it with blueprints?