[by ax123man]

it was easy:

<menu>
<items>
<button text="A button" />
<string>-</string>
<button text="Another button" />

[by ax123man]

maybe, but my config objects are created via DWR from objects created via xtream & xml. So they are java classes with properties, not simple strings.

[by ax123man]

I'm having problems creating a menu separator in a menu using config. It didn't look like Ext had an xtype registered for this so I did this:

Ext.ComponentMgr.registerType('menuseparator',...

[by ax123man]

that works, sort of. I have your new Ext.override and...

Ext.override(Ext.Button, {
constructor: Ext.Button.prototype.constructor.createInterceptor(function(config){
...

[by ax123man]

I tried something like what was in that post, which the post indicates didn't work for Ext.grid.ColumnModel, but that isn't a problem for me. And for the sake of testing, I tried this:

...

[by ax123man]

found this post:
http://www.extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12181


so I tried this:

Ext.interceptConstructor = function(c, f) {
var r = function(){
f.apply(this, arguments);
...

[by ax123man]

any ideas at all?! Does my code at least look like it should work? Anything would be helpful.

Thx!

[by ax123man]

I also tried this:

Ext.override(Ext.Component, {
constructor: Ext.Component.prototype.constructor.createInterceptor(function(config){
config = mte.UI.getMergedConfig(config);
})...

[by ax123man]

anyone?
The other issue is that I wanted to also do this trick on a TextField but the overridden constructor is not called. I then tried to override Ext.Component since I really need to do this to...

[by ax123man]

I'm trying to merge some custom config for all menu items like so:

Ext.override(Ext.menu.BaseItem, {
constructor: function(config) {
config = mystuff.getMergedConfig(config);
...