Question about Run-Time Shortcut Menus example

I am looking at the Run-Time Shortcut Menus.vi that ships with LabVIEW2011. There is an event case "Test List":Mouse Down that does nothing but generate a Val(Sgnl) event for the "Test List" control if the right mouse button was pressed. There is no value change event for that control.
Is there an obscure reason to do that? One thing I have learned about many of the examples is not to strictly use them as examples.
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LabVIEW 2012
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Nevermind - I found the obscure reason. Even though there is not a value change event, generating the value change event is required to change the value on right-click.
At least NI could have documented this in the example
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LabVIEW 2012

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Check marks or dynamic items for run-time shortcut menus

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Great question. Yes, you can do what you want with run-time shortcut menus in LabVIEW 8.0. If you want to dynamically modify the menu content, you have to do it in the "Shortcut Menu Activation?" event in the facade VI of the XControl. In the event data for this event is a parameter called "MenuRef" which works with the same menu primitives that have been around since LabVIEW 5 for editing the menu bar at run-time.
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Hi Siva,
are you talking about the checkmark?
Read the help for "Set Menu Item Info" function and you will notice the "checked" input
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Is it possible to preserve dynamic run-time shortcut menu updates for a control?

Hello all,
I have a question about getting control run-time shortcut menus to persist after adding new items. I am hopeful that I'm simply missing something simple here.
Known Information
I understand the use of the "Shortcut Menu Activation?" event (for the control of interest) which provides the relevant control's menu reference for use with the menu VIs. No problems there.
Problem
I start with a control which has an .rtm file assigned as its run-time shortcut menu.
I then generate new items dynamically using the event/menu mechanism noted above.
The problem is that there doesn't seem to be a way to *preserve* those newly added items (ie. I have to re-create the new items everytime the menu is *activated*).
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Does anyone know how to either:
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comper wrote:
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