how to make drag and drop widget in unreal engine 5

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creating a drag-and-drop widget in unreal engine 5 involves several steps, including setting up the user interface (ui) with umg (unreal motion graphics) and writing some blueprints or c++ code to handle the drag-and-drop functionality. below, i'll guide you through both approaches, focusing primarily on using blueprints, as it is more common for ui tasks, but i'll also include a brief overview of how it can be done in c++.

step 1: setting up your project

1. **create a new project**: open unreal engine 5 and create a new project (blueprint or c++ based).
2. **enable umg**: ensure umg is enabled in your project settings. it should be enabled by default.

step 2: create a widget blueprint

1. *create a new widget blueprint**: right-click in the content browser, go to **user interface* **widget blueprint**. name it `dragdropwidget`.
2. **design the widget**: open `dragdropwidget` and add a `text block` to represent the item you want to drag. you can also customize it with images or other ui components.

step 3: implementing drag and drop logic

using blueprints

1. **create a drag drop operation**:
in the `dragdropwidget`, go to the *graph* view.
right-click and create a new **drag drop operation**. name it something like `mydragdropoperation`.

2. **implement drag logic**:
in the `dragdropwidget` graph, you need to handle mouse events.
select the `text block` (or the widget you want to drag), and in the *details* panel, scroll to the *events* section.
add an event for `on mouse button down`.
in the event graph, create a `create drag drop operation` node. choose your `mydragdropoperation` as the class.
set the `payload` of the operation to the widget itself (you can use `self`).
call `detect drag` and connect it to the mouse button down event.

example blueprint logic:


3. **implement drop logic**:
in the `mydragdropoperation`, create a new event for `on drop`.
in this event, you can handle what ...

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