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On Jun 15, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Lynn Oliver <rayco...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
