Re: Changing app menu name
Re: Changing app menu name
- Subject: Re: Changing app menu name
- From: "R. Tony Goold" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 12:19:37 -0400
I believe, if you read further, that Finlay already answered your question:
There is no provision for doing it.
However Finlay's question still stands, and a perfectly good one at that:
Why do you want to do it? I'm having a hard time thinking of any reason
for doing it which doesn't have a better solution. There are two which
come to mind immediately:
1. You've taken advantage of 255 character filenames to write a small
essay as the name of your application, but you acknowledge this takes up a
significant amount of space in the menu. Solution: Give your application a
more compact name.
2. You want to deceive the user and play some sort of trick on them.
Solution: Don't.
It's entirely possible you've found some completely overlooked case, but
we won't know that until you tell us what it is you're trying to do :-)
Cheers,
Tony
On Friday, October 5, 2001, at 10:46 , Tommy Braas wrote:
Finlay,
Right, I didn't mean the Finder menu... Sorry about the confusion! I
meant the main menu bar
of my application of course...
So, the question still stands! How do I programmatically change the name
of my application in the menu bar?
Thanks!
\tommy
How do I do that?
You don't. There is no provision for doing it because it should not be
done. Why on earth would anyone ever want to do so?
I have tried using both the IBOutlet I created for the menu and [ [
[ NSApplication sharedApplication ] mainMenu ] setTitle: @"MyName" ].
None of those work. Furthermore it is not picking up the changes in the
menu name that I make to the menu in IB. What am I doing wrong?
Attempting it in the first place. :-)
-- Finlay
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