Fwd: OS X Standalone Question Rerun

[Simon Lord]

> Yep. It was answered a few night ago by Mark Talluto
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> This is more work.  One option is to download the latest 
> developer tools from apples site.  Go to the developer 
> section.  It is a big download.  It will install all kinds of 
> neat tools some of which you will need for icons and handling 
> the menu you are talking about.
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> The data is stored in a resource called:  plst
> 1.  Use resedit in classic to get the current data from your 
> standalone from this plst resource.  Copy it.
> 2.  Paste it into bbedit
> 3.  Open the file you save from bbedit into 
> PropertyListEditor.  Change the needed items from there.  You 
> can edit it with an XML editor or the application from apple 
> called PropertyListEditor (which comes with the developer tools 
> download).  Save that for later use if you want.  There is a 
> dump button in that app that will put the xml data into a blank 
> field near the bottom of the screen.  Copy that.
> 4.  Go back to resedit and paste it over the old data that you 
> copied originally.
> 5.  Save those changes in resedit.
> 6.  You are done.
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> Let me know if you have any probs doing this.
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> On Monday, January 14, 2002, at 10:29 PM, Richard MacLemale wrote:
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>> Sorry to post the exact same question a second time, but it's 
>> driving me
>> absolutely insane and I'm somehow hoping that the question 
>> wasn't answered
>> because I phrased it poorly.  So here goes...
>>
>> Under MC 2.4.1 and OS X, create a standalone application using 
>> the carbon
>> engine.  Everything is fine, except that the very first menu 
>> in the menubar
>> of your new application is "MetaCard" instead of the name of your
>> application.  This is naturally very, very undesirable because 
>> it gives away
>> the fact that you're running a MetaCard stack.  The whole 
>> point of building
>> standalones is to create programs that function like "normal, real
>> applications" and the illusion is shattered by the big old 
>> MetaCard menu.
>>
>> Soooo there must be a way around this.  Surely someone has solved this
>> problem already?  What's the secret?
>>
>> :)
>> Richard MacLemale
>> Instructional Technology Specialist
>> James W. Mitchell High School
>> http://mitchellonline.pasco.k12.fl.us
>>
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