Updating ChoicePropertyComponent

General JUCE discussion
1

What is the preferred way to update the choices in a ChoicePropertyComponent when they change?

I’ve tried subclassing the getChoices method but it’s doesn’t seem subclassable as my method never gets called.

Any ideas?

2

The answer seems to be, to change the StringArray choices that was used to construct the ChoicePropertyComponent and then call the component’s refresh() method.

3

Changing the choices StringArray does not seem to work. The choices StringArray inside the component is just a copy of the one you pass, so updating it externally has no effect.

Even a subclass has no access to choices or the comboBox because they are private.

So what to do?

4

It is even worse, because changing the combobox is only half of the goal. You need to change the RemapperValueSource as well:

So with the current implementation it seems to me you can only destroy the component and recreate it.

5

Yeah, it’s been a while since I messed with the ChoicePropertyComponent class… but I believe I ended up adding some additional methods to the class to make it easier to change Sections and Components…

Rail

6

That’s what I ended up doing, destroying the entire panel with sections and rebuilding.
Very un-Juce like.