Along the same lines, I managed to get application/preferences to work on the Mac, but while application/about shows the name of my Python app (built with pyinstaller), it displays the 'Tcl & Tk' dialog.
The TkDocs-TK Tutorial on menus shows this as a TODO item (http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/menus.html). While I was able to figure out the preferences menu by looking at the idlelib sources, I couldn't get the application/about menu to work. Any suggestions? Lynn On Jun 15, 2012, at 6:45 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Please see my answers below: > > >> Here's a bit of code used to create the Help menu: >> >> if MAC: >> self.master.createcommand("tkAboutDialog", self.about_action) >> self.master.createcommand("::tk::mac::ShowHelp", >> self.help_action) >> helpMenu = tk.Menu(self.menubar, name="help") >> helpMenu.add_command(label="Help", underline=0, >> command=self.help_action) >> if not MAC: >> helpMenu.add_command(label="About", underline=0, >> command=self.about_action) >> self.menubar.add_cascade(label="Help", underline=0, >> menu=helpMenu) > > There's some magic in the Tk-Cocoa help menu--if you define the > tk::mac::showHelp command and map it to your function that calls user help, > you don't need to add a separate entry for help. (There's already an entry > hard-coded for help, along with the search field.) So the > helpMenu.add_Command(label="Help")... stuff is redundant. > >> I end up with these menus: >> >> ActivePython3.2 >> About ActivePython3.2 # correctly invokes my about action > > If you're just running the app from Python and not wrapping it with a tool > such as py2app, this is the expected behavior. The "about" menu picks up the > name of the executable from its info.plist file, which in this case is Python. > >> >> Help >> Search # some apple-specific thing that just appears >> ActivePython3.2 Help # invokes my help action >> Help # invokes my help action > >> >> Problems: >> >> (1) I don't know how to rename the "ActivePython3.2" menu to "My App". >> (2) I don't know how to rename the "About ActivePython3.2" menu option >> to "About" or "About My App". > > See above--you need to wrap this as a standalone app using py2app or > cx_freeze. > >> (3) I don't know how to eliminate the "ActivePython3.2 Help" menu option. >> If I don't do helpMenu.add_command() on the Mac that menu has no >> items ('cos the About is in the ActivePython3.2 menu) and so the >> Help menu doesn't appear at all. > > If you don't add any items to the help menu but just define it, I would > expect to see an entry called "ActivePython 3.2 Help" that calls up a dialog > which says, "Help isn't available for ActivePython 3.2." > > This is how I set up my help menu is one of my Python apps: > > self.createcommand('::tk::mac::ShowHelp', self.runHelp) > > self.helpmenu = Menu(self.mb, name='_help') > self.mb.add_cascade(label='Help', menu=self.helpmenu) > self.helpmenu.add_command(label='Phynchronicity Help', > command=self.runHelp) > self.helpmenu.add_command(label='Contact Code by Kevin', > command=self.getHelp) > self.helpmenu.add_command(label='Web Site', command=self.getWebSite) > self.helpmenu.add_command(label='User Forum', > command=self.getUserForum) > self.helpmenu.add_command(label='Newsletter', > command=self.getNewsletter) > > Hope this helps, > Kevin > > -- > Kevin Walzer > Code by Kevin > http://www.codebykevin.com > _______________________________________________ > Tkinter-discuss mailing list > Tkinter-discuss@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
