Shortcut text

General JUCE discussion
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I recently updated juce to latest version and I noticed that menus no longer properly display shortcut text.
I do not use CommandManager. I simply separated item text with < end> and old juce version displayed this as shortcut text.
Latest version uses updateShortcutKeyDescription() to generate property shortcutKeyDescription. It is no longer possible to manually assign value.
I could manually set shortcutKeyDescription property but PopupMenu::addItem does not return created menu item.
I will modify juce source but please make custom shortcut text available again.

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Here is my solution. Please include it in your source.

void PopupMenu::addItem(int itemResultID, const String& itemText, bool isActive, bool isTicked, const String& shortcutText)
{
Item i;
i.text = itemText;
i.itemID = itemResultID;
i.isEnabled = isActive;
i.isTicked = isTicked;
i.shortcutKeyDescription = shortcutText;
addItem(i);
}

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Sorry, but that’s exactly the sort of method that we don’t want the PopupMenu class to have! The point of the recently-added Item subclass was so that all the many addItem() methods would no longer be needed, and we may even one day deprecate them. By using a structure like PopupMenu::Item that contains all the info, it means we can add and modify that data in the future without having to change all the addItem calls and breaking people’s code.

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…but of course, there’s no reason at all why you’d need us to add this anyway. If it’s a function you need regularly, you can just write it yourself as a free function that takes a PopupMenu and adds the item to it.

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Ok, I’ll use “Item” directly. I don’t know why I thought Item is declared private but I see now that it is public…