I showed a preview of this smaller project that I had where I made a widget that could open my tools for you without having to dig around in the plugins folder. I was kind of influenced by this one video that I found when I was searching for a way to make blueprints run during the editor's startup:
I decided that it would be easier to have a separate widget open on startup and that would access the UI widget and run it with just a click of a button. In order for this to work I have to expose the run function for this Tool Opener and basically make some graph code that does what run would usually do and open a UI window for the widget functionality. Then I have a similar structure that opens the UI in the plugin folder for my tool I made.
I need to find a way to reference that blueprint without it being present. When that plugin is deactivated it disappears from the the asset selection so I can't use that drop down menu on the add tab method. But I did get it set up to start on editor startup. Based on that video and some Unreal documentation (https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/running-blueprints-at-unreal-editor-startup?application_version=5.3) I need a .ini file in the projects config folder that's called DefaultEditorPerProjectUserSettings. I had to use a similar file in the saved folder and use 'save as' to create a new file after the changes that i made.
Now that part of this project seems to work:
I'll keep you updated for when this new thing has been submitted and approved. I hope to have it finished by next week.
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