PopupMenu::CustomComponent bug

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Hello,

I’ve discovered a bug related to the highlighting of CustomComponents in a PopupMenu.

Behavior: CustomComponents cannot be highlighted because calling PopupMenu::CustomComponent::isItemHighlighted() always returns false.

Example:

void MyCustomComponent::repaint(Graphics &g)
{
if (isItemHighlighted()) // IS ALWAYS FALSE
g.fillAll(_highlightColor);

_drawMyComponent();

}

Cause: When a CustomComponent is added to a PopupMenu via PopupMenu::addCustomComponent, the custom component is wrapped in a NormalComponentWrapper, which is a subclass of CustomComponent. Therefore when CustomComponent::setHighlighted is finally called in PopupMenu::highlightItemUnderMouse (via PopupMenu::setCurrentlyHighlightedChild), it is called on the the NormalComponentWrapper, which does not pass the information along to the user’s CustomComponent.

Thanks!

Joe

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Nevemind. I was using

void addCustomItem (int itemResultId, Component *customComponent, int idealWidth, int idealHeight, bool triggerMenuItemAutomaticallyWhenClicked)

instead of

void addCustomItem (int itemResultId, CustomComponent *customComponent)

I did read the “Appends a custom menu item that can’t be used to trigger a result.” documentation for the former, but was confused by the triggerMenuItemAutomaticallyWhenClicked parameter.

Sorry if I wasted anyone’s time!

Joe