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Possible to create menubar application? (Mac)

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 8:12 am
by SomDude
Hello,
Is it possible to create a menubar application for mac? (menubar being the one with the file-edit-view options)
Thank You.

Re: Possible to create menubar application? (Mac)

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 9:16 am
by richmond62
All Macintosh applications have a menubar: so, can you explain exactly what you mean
by a "menubar application"?

Do you mean that you would like to know how to implement a menubar in your standalone
that is "jazzier" than the rather "non" one a standard standalone build produces?

I have never done this, so I'm not going to try to advise you: what I am going to do, though
is suggest you have a look at this:

http://www.hyperactivesw.com/mctutorial ... Menus.html

Re: Possible to create menubar application? (Mac)

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 12:00 pm
by Klaus
Hi SomDude,

what Richmond said!

But I recommend the "Menus" stack from the scripting conferences, that's a bit more up-to-date:
http://www.hyperactivesw.com/revscriptc ... ences.html

And the other stacks on that page aren't too shabby either! :D


Best

Klaus

Re: Possible to create menubar application? (Mac)

Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2015 9:54 am
by jacque
The OP may mean a system menu extension, an icon that appears at the top right of the system menu bar. There's no way to do that yet as far as I know.

Re: Possible to create menubar application? (Mac)

Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2015 11:33 am
by Klaus
jacque wrote:The OP may mean a system menu extension, an icon that appears at the top right of the system menu bar.
Don't think so:
SomDude wrote:... (menubar being the one with the file-edit-view options)

Re: Possible to create menubar application? (Mac)

Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2015 12:22 pm
by SomDude
haha I did mean what jacque said, but thank you all anyway :D . Its cool to learn more stuff than I need hehe.

Re: Possible to create menubar application? (Mac)

Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2015 3:46 pm
by richmond62
Well, I am grateful for this posting and my misunderstanding as I use this sort of thing
in my XFCE desktop top panel all the time:
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and really didn't know how to describe them.