Order of dialog popup items

Is it possible to set a specific order in which popup items appear in a dialog window, besides sorted alphabetically?

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The only thing you can do is add separators, to force separation between groups of entries.

There is also an undocumented insert function. But I'm not sure if the entries will keep the insert order.

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For the seperator option, do you mean like this:

{"A--ZZZ":-1, "B--YYY": -1, "C--XXX": -1}

with "--" as the separator, and then split the resul by that separator (string.split("--")[1] )?

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That technique works for ordering the items, but thats not what I meant.

Dropdown separators are added with an undocumented function. They separate groups of items.

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