popup menu actions? (how?)

[human fly]

hi – ok, i’ve reproduced your code, and i’m getting this error
(what do we call this type of error? syntax?)

At line [-1]: [C]
What: C
Namewhat: method
Name: addColouredItem
Error message: No matching overload found, candidates:
void addColouredItem(PopupMenu&,int,String const&,Colour,bool,bool,Image const&)
void addColouredItem(PopupMenu&,int,String const&,Colour,bool,bool,Drawable*)

am i correct in thinking it is failing at ‘image()’?
here is what my copy of your code looks like:

function colourPop2()

	--This stops issues during panel bootup--else popup will hang startup!
	if panel:getRestoreState() == true or panel:getProgramState() == true 
	then return end

-- Create a table for menu item names
	itemNames = 
	{
	"toneName1","toneName2","toneName3","toneName4","toneName5","toneName6","toneName7","toneName8",
	"toneName9","toneName10",
	}
--
	local pMenu	= PopupMenu()

-- Create menu items from the "itemNames" table
	for i=1, #itemNames do
	pMenu:addColouredItem(i, itemNames, Colour(0xff21c630), true, false, Image())
	end
--
	local ret = pMenu:show(0,0,0,0)

--////////////////////////////////////// MENU ACTIONS /////////////////////////////
-- Return if nothing is selected
	if ret == 0 then 
	return
	end

-- Print the correct name from the "itemNames" table
-- Here you could send the name to a label
	console(itemNames[ret])
end

[human fly]

little side question: this:
for i=1, #itemNames do ...

so am i correct in reading this as ‘ for ‘i’ items starting at 1,
go through consecutively all items in table ‘itemNames’ ‘ ?

(kinda inverse way of learning about this 🙂 but whatever it takes..
i keep meaning to get back to these basics)

[human fly]

CORRECTION 😀
it DOES work ! i had it completely wrong, for some reason,
i see what you mean about the square brackets now. i must’ve
copied it wrong.

demo panel here:(popupwerk_v03.panel)
https://app.box.com/s/3ari4lovw0h1lzp0ynezas9oci5ceynt

this:(exactly as you showed in your post)

-- Create menu items from the "itemNames" table
	for itemIndex=1, #itemNames do
	pMenu:addColouredItem(itemIndex, itemNames[itemIndex], Colour(0xff21c630), true, false, Image())
	end

then this:

panel:getComponent("label_ToneNameDest"):setPropertyString("uiLabelText"," " .. (itemNames[ret]))

it is a nice way to do a simple popup menu, as well – although
i don’t know how one might do headers and submenus.

now we just have to find out how to do all those other natty tricks
with background colour/trnasparency etc. – i wonder if there are
ways to adapt your code to work it in the ‘standard’ way of
creating popups.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by human fly. Reason: add demo file

[human fly]

little question on popups again:
how do you define how many rows/columns?
or more precisely, if i want my items in ‘stacks’ of, say, 8,
how is that achieved?

what do these entries represent? i know the last one it item height:
ret = m:show(0,0,0,25)

ccheeerzzz…

edit: ah: answer to that here:

https://www.juce.com/doc/classPopupMenu#acd7bdfe5db59180d929a5dac90bcacce

but this doesn’t seem to allow me to organise columns/rows…

[human fly]

noticing anothing thing about this:
say you have:

m 	= PopupMenu()
m:addItem(1, "A-11", true, false, Image())
etc?

‘ Image()’ is a function. so presumably you could replace
that with a different function?

not sure what, at the moment. any thoughts?

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