Can't we just use GetOwner()->InputComponent?

[Mick412]

I see that AActor already includes a public member of InputComponent of type UInputComponent.

An UActorComponent seems to always always be a component of an AActor (GetOwner() return type is AActor*), wouldn’t it be better performance wise to directly use GetOwner()->InputComponent instead of searching component by class like in the course, ie GetOwner()->FindComponentByClass<UInputComponent>()?

For example:

if (GetOwner()->InputComponent)
{
    UE_LOG(LogTemp, Display, TEXT("Grabber: InputComponent found on owner %s"), *GetOwner()->GetName());
    GetOwner()->InputComponent->BindAction("Grab", IE_Pressed, this, &UGrabber::Grab);
}

For me this worked. We can still affect it to a private member if we don’t want to call GetOwner() each time.

Thanks!

[DanM]

Yes, you can. I said the same to Mike, honestly.

@Mick412

An UActorComponent seems to always always be a component of an AActor

Note: This doesn’t necessarily mean that it is actually pointing to an instance of one.

[Mick412]

Thank you!