Colors in popup menus?

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1

I am trying to set the text and background color in a popup menu via a script. This works, only the item of submenu 'Test2' keeps the default colors. What am I doing wrong? The script below is the script I used for testing.

from javax.swing import JMenuItem
from java.awt import Font
from java.awt import Cursor
from com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.images import PathIcon
from javax.swing import JMenu

FONT_DROPDOWNITEMS=Font("Arial Narrow",Font.PLAIN,20)

def popupmenu( event ):	
	menu = system.gui.createPopupMenu([],[])
		
	# Menu item 1
	menuItem=JMenuItem()
	menuItem.text='Test1'
	menuItem.actionPerformed=dummyFunctie
	icon=PathIcon()
	icon.path='MOBZ/error-outline.png'
	menuItem.setIcon(icon)
	commonSettings(menuItem)	
	menu.add( menuItem ) 	
	
	# Menu item 2 (submenu)
	submenu=JMenu('Test2')
	
	# Submenu item 2a
	submenuItem=JMenuItem()
	submenuItem.text='Test2a'
	submenuItem.actionPerformed=dummyFunctie
	commonSettings(submenuItem)
	submenu.add(submenuItem)
	
	# Submenu item 2b
	submenuItem=JMenuItem()
	submenuItem.text='Test2b'
	submenuItem.actionPerformed=dummyFunctie
	commonSettings(submenuItem)
	submenu.add(submenuItem)
	
	submenu.setEnabled(True) 
	commonSettings(submenu)
	menu.add( submenu ) 									
	
	menu.show(event,0,0)

def commonSettings(menuitem):
	menuitem.background=system.gui.color('220,220,220')
	menuitem.foreground=system.gui.color('0,0,0')
	menuitem.setFont(FONT_DROPDOWNITEMS)	
	
def dummyFunctie(event):
	print 'dummy'
		
popupmenu(event)
2

Maybe a silly question, but would it not be easier to have a popup view and pass all the colour and text information to parameters?

3

Maybe, but that is not the question.

4

Have you tried settings it color and font before adding the nested entries?

5

Yes, before adding

6

Take a look at this thread:

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