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UMenuAnchor

The Menu Anchor allows you to specify an location that a popup menu should be anchored to, and should be summoned from.

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Inheritance Hierarchy

UObjectBase

UObjectBaseUtility

UObject

UVisual

UWidget

UPanelWidget

UContentWidget

UMenuAnchor

References

Module	UMG
Header	/Engine/Source/Runtime/UMG/Public/Components/MenuAnchor.h
Include	#include "Components/MenuAnchor.h"

Syntax

class UMenuAnchor : public UContentWidget

Remarks

The Menu Anchor allows you to specify an location that a popup menu should be anchored to, and should be summoned from.

Variables

	Name	Description
bool	bFitInWindow	Should the menu anchor attempt to fit the menu inside the window.
TSubclassOf< cl...	MenuClass	The widget class to spawn when the menu is required.
TSharedPtr< SMe...	MyMenuAnchor
FGetWidget	OnGetMenuContentEvent	Called when the menu content is requested to allow a more customized handling over what to display
FOnMenuOpenChan...	OnMenuOpenChanged	Called when the opened state of the menu changes
TEnumAsByte< EM...	Placement	The placement location of the summoned widget.
bool	ShouldDeferPaintingAfterWindowContent
bool	UseApplicationMenuStack	Does this menu behave like a normal stacked menu? Set it to false to control the menu's lifetime yourself.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	UMenuAnchor ( const FObjectInitializer& ObjectIn... )

Functions

	Name	Description
void	Close()	Closes the menu if it is currently open.
void	FitInWindow ( bool bFit )
FVector2D	GetMenuPosition()	Returns the current menu position
TSharedRef< ...	HandleGetMenuContent()
void	HandleMenuOpenChanged ( bool bIsOpen )
bool	HasOpenSubMenus()	Returns whether this menu has open submenus
bool	IsOpen()	Returns true if the popup is open; false otherwise.
void	Open ( bool bFocusMenu )	Opens the menu if it is not already open
void	SetPlacement ( TEnumAsByte< EMenuPlacement > InPla... )
bool	ShouldOpenDueToClick()	Returns true if we should open the menu due to a click.
void	ToggleOpen ( bool bFocusOnOpen )	Toggles the menus open state.

Overridden from UPanelWidget

		Name	Description
	void	OnSlotAdded ( UPanelSlot* Slot )	UPanelWidget.
	void	OnSlotRemoved ( UPanelSlot* Slot )

Overridden from UWidget

		Name	Description
	const FText	GetPaletteCategory()	Gets the palette category of the widget
	TSharedRef< ...	RebuildWidget()	Function implemented by all subclasses of UWidget is called when the underlying SWidget needs to be constructed.

Overridden from UVisual

		Name	Description
	void	ReleaseSlateResources ( bool bReleaseChildren )

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