Pressing Ctrl F7 hides most of the interface including custom widgets. If you need a widget to stay visible during screenshots or free camera, here is what you need to know.
By default, pressing Ctrl F7 toggles the entire UI on and off. That includes any custom widgets you have loaded. If your widget adds information on screen and you want it to persist when the rest of the UI is hidden, the setting needs to be exposed at the widget level.
BAR already ships with an option to render health bars even when the UI is hidden. The same pattern can be applied to custom widgets. The widget code needs a flag that checks the UI-hidden state and decides whether to draw or not.
BAR widgets are not limited to UI overlays. Players have created entire visual effects purely from widgets — skybox modifications, visual filters, and ambient effects. If you want a blackhole-style skybox or other heavy visual modification, widgets are the platform for it.
If a widget does not expose the visibility toggle you need, the widget author can add it. The health bar pattern already exists. It would not take much code to add a similar option to any custom widget.
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