diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index d3921311..e0b92d02 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ Stefan Huelswitt <huels@iname.com>
  for creating mutexes with PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK_NP, which made the 'lockingTid'
  stuff obsolete
  for suggesting to move the declaration of cMenuText to VDR/menu.h to make it
- available to plugins
+ available to plugins, and to add a SetText() function
 
 Ulrich Röder <roeder@efr-net.de>
  for pointing out that there are channels that have a symbol rate higher than
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 7c0b73da..f8da9863 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -2827,5 +2827,6 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   'Transfer Mode' (thanks to Michal Dobrzynski for reporting this one).
 - Fixed a memory leak in NIT processing (thanks to Marcel Wiesweg).
 - Added a few missing initializations (thanks to Marcel Wiesweg).
-- Moved the declaration of cMenuText to VDR/menu.h to make it available to plugins
-  (suggested by Stefan Huelswitt).
+- Moved the declaration of cMenuText to VDR/menu.h to make it available to plugins.
+  It now also has a SetText() function that can be used to dynamically set the text
+  in an already existing cMenuText (both suggested by Stefan Huelswitt).
diff --git a/menu.c b/menu.c
index 3c86c193..be4227e7 100644
--- a/menu.c
+++ b/menu.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: menu.c 1.303 2004/05/23 09:39:09 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: menu.c 1.304 2004/05/23 09:47:14 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "menu.h"
@@ -502,7 +502,19 @@ eOSState cMenuChannels::ProcessKey(eKeys Key)
 cMenuText::cMenuText(const char *Title, const char *Text, eDvbFont Font)
 :cOsdMenu(Title)
 {
-  text = Text;
+  text = NULL;
+  SetText(Text);
+}
+
+cMenuText::~cMenuText()
+{
+  free(text);
+}
+
+void cMenuText::SetText(const char *Text)
+{
+  free(text);
+  text = strdup(Text);
 }
 
 void cMenuText::Display(void)
diff --git a/menu.h b/menu.h
index 64bd0f95..150f88de 100644
--- a/menu.h
+++ b/menu.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: menu.h 1.62 2004/05/23 09:39:02 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: menu.h 1.63 2004/05/23 09:47:26 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __MENU_H
@@ -21,9 +21,11 @@
 
 class cMenuText : public cOsdMenu {
 private:
-  const char *text;
+  char *text;
 public:
   cMenuText(const char *Title, const char *Text, eDvbFont Font = fontOsd);
+  virtual ~cMenuText();
+  void SetText(const char *Text);
   virtual void Display(void);
   virtual eOSState ProcessKey(eKeys Key);
   };