How do I set up an'About' menu in stand alone?

[OzSanta]

G'day

I'd like to set up the 'About' menu in my stand alone app., but can't find anywhere in the blurbs that explains how to do it.

Any guidance please, or links?

Regards

Santa

[icouto]

There is a chapter in the User Guide which deals extensively with creating menus, and 'special menu items' like 'Help' and 'About'.

You can find the User Guide in the 'Help' menu of LiveCode itself. Once you open the User Guide, look for the section titled "Programming Menus & Menu Bars". In that section, look for "Special Menu Items" under the section that talks about MacOS X menus.

I hope this helps!

[OzSanta]

G'day, & thanks Icouto. I've followed the instructions to the letter, and while I can get a 'help' to work, I cannot get the last item of the Help menu button to replace the 'About...' menu.
I've got the menu item after a single dash, as directed, and it's the third item, and last, and it's disappearing from the Menu, but not working. Any one got any suggestions please?

Regards

Santa

[Klaus]

Hi Santa,

that is correct behavior, the last item -> "About" of the "Help" menu will appear as the first item in the "Application" menu!


Best

Klaus

[OzSanta]

G'day Klaus. Unfortunately I used the word 'cannot' in my query, as in I cannot get it to work as it should. It simply refuses to replace the 'About...' in my project. I've tried 'About' with and without the ellipsis on the end, as well as other terminology.

Regards

Santa

[Klaus]

Could you please post the content of your "Help" menu button?
Should be something like:
Help
-
About

Just made a test and works fine here.

[OzSanta]

Quotes Help
-
About


Regards

Santa

[Klaus]

Hi Santa,

hmm, looks correct, sorry no brilliant idea in the moment...


Best

Klaus

[jacque]

I think the engine is interpreting a plain "About" as an empty entry. Try adding the name of your app:

About MyApp...

That should kick it into action.

[OzSanta]

Thanks Jacque, but that didn't work either, unfortunately.

Regards

Santa

[FourthWorld]

What does the menuPick handler in your Help menu look like?

[Mark]

Hi Santa,

I did a little test in 6.0 on OSX Snow Leopard and noticed that things go awry as soon as I change the name of the Help or About menu items. What happens if you delete the menubar (make sure to save any important scripts first) and create a new menubar with the default Help and About menu items? Do those work normally? This seems to be a bug. I haven't tried this on a later version of OSX yet.

Best,

Mark

[OzSanta]

G'day Mark. I did as you suggested, and it's really stuffed things up. Now I can't even get the Help menu to show, and the automatic re-sizing of the project window to hide the menu button is also failing.

Regards

Santa

[OzSanta]

OK, I made the simplest of stacks, went through the whole process, and while my help menu works as it did in my main project, the 'About...' menu refuses to change.

In my main project, I resorted to starting the menu in a substack, with 'send openstack' to it from the first opening stack. The help menu works, but again, the 'About...' menu doesn't.

Is this a bug? If so, how long till it's fixed? Can I send my project to anyone to check it? (it's about 3.5 MB).

I've struck several finder problems with my set-up in X-Code, so it might be related.

Running... Latest i7 3.4 GHz, 32 GB ram, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB, 10.8.3

Regards

Santa

[Mark]

Hi Santa,

No one knows how long it takes for a bug to be fixed.

If you contact me here, I'll send you an e-mail.

Kind regards,

Mark