How to modify the context menu of a foreign parameter

[DaveVenom (Dave Benham)]

SUCCESS!!

Using the information shared in this thread, I was able to create a new Venom Widget Menu Extender module that lets users provide custom names for parameters and ports, and custom defaults for parameters.

Venom 2.6 Beta - looking for testers and feedback

New Module: Widget Menu Extender This module allows you to rename any foreign parameter control or port, as well as set a custom default for any foreign parameter. Nearly all Venom modules have these capabilities built in. This module brings that functionality to foreign modules. It works by extending the context menus of the foreign parameters and ports - there is no need to interact with the Widget Menu Extender itself, it just needs to be in the patch. [WidgetMenuExtender] Full documentatio…

Rather than import Ben’s ParamWidgetContextExtender.hpp, I incorporated the techniques directly into my module widget step() routine, and adapted it to work with ports as well as parameters.

Anyone interested can look at the WidgetMenuExtender.cpp source code starting at (or around) line 406.

Thanks again Ben @stoermelder, without your trailblazing work I could never have realized this module.