Different text in button than in drop-down for combobox?

General JUCE discussion
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Is there a way to have a different text appear in the ComboBox’s drop-down than what is in the drop-down list itself? We’d like to abbreviate one of the entries in one of our ComboBoxes, but I can’t see any way to modify the text that gets drawn in the button itself. Is there a Look&Feel method for that?

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NOTE: we do NOT want to CHANGE the text for the selected item; we just want the drawing of the text to use an abbreviated version of the text in the drop-down list, due to space issues. But I can’t find if there is a Look&Feel for drawing the text of the ComboBox’s button.

3

If you mean drawing the text of a comboBox’s Label, that method is:

LookAndFeel::drawLabel(Graphics& g, Label& label)

This does all labels and the displayed text in ComboBoxes (which is a Label).

You could possibly do something like dynamic cast the parent to a ComboBox, search for specific text String, and then modify it before drawing it.

auto text = label.getText();
if (dynamic_cast<ComboBox*>(label.getParentComponent()))
{
      if (text == "MyCertainString")
            text = "newString"
}

// draw the text