Also, how do you handle trying to call a `@Composable` function from a `Window()` 's `MenuBar`??? I ...

# compose-desktop

[Kebbin]

Also, how do you handle trying to call a @Composable function from a Window() 's MenuBar???
I can't do it from a Window in the main function, as that can't be @Composable, and a @Composable can't be called from anything but a @Composable?
But a Window in a @Composable function still can't seem to do it!
Sorry! Thanks! 🥴

[Michael Paus]

I believe your thinking is wrong here. You should call a normal function which triggers some state change in your model to which your composable functions then can react to.

[Kebbin]

Haha! I've been reading up on the new Thinking in Compose docs etc, and still must've missed something! Well, a lot really maybe...
Thanks for your attention. I might just have to do some more reading.
Can you give me a pointer where I can find the right way to make my @Composable functions react to stuff properly? Thanks! ☺️

[Kebbin]

OK.................
I think I might've finally got it! I had been using remember from habit, because of simple examples I've been building on, and my simple app had been able to handle that obviously!
I've now got things working I think, using just var dataIn = mutableStateOf("") for example, and my @Composables seem to be updating live when it changes????
Hopefully this is right! Gee, what a learning experience. Thanks anyway!!

[Kebbin]

And the remember idea might help me with another problem I was having, where I wanted a variable to be set/copied from another variable, but then remain unchanged as the original one varied!!? Wow. Good stuff. @darkmoon_uk will be proud of me, if I can get this into my head! This might've been worth staying up late for, if I can have learnt this!!!

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

That's an important distinction. https://dev.to/zachklipp/remember-mutablestateof-a-cheat-sheet-10ma

[Kebbin]

Thank you very much!! That looks very helpful. Will read more later.
😎👍