UE4 Goodness: Slate Widget Reflector

I continue the series of tutorials dedicated to UE4 Slate UI Framework. In the previous post, I talked about a basic slate widget example. Now I want to show you how UE4 Slate widget reflector works (official documentation is here). It is a very useful and helpful tool that you are going to use a lot if you work with Slate.

Let’s say you want to see how an item in the World Outliner is implemented. Without the widget reflector, you are going to waste a ton of time searching for the exact location within the CPP code. But with the reflector, it is a matter of a minute. Read More

UE4 Slate Widget Example

UE4 Slate Example markup — Slate UI markup

I am starting a series of posts dedicated to UE4 Slate UI Framework. There will be tutorials, examples and quick how-tos. Everything to cover a lack of documentation on the topic from Epics. I’ll start with a simple example of a basic UE4 Slate widget where you select a value from a dropdown, enter a text and press an action button.

To start, create a C++ project. Create a subclass of UWidget: UGreetingsWidget. This will be a wrapper for our Slate widget: Read More