Metacard menu?

[Mark Luetzelschwab]

Every app in OS X has the Application name as its first menu. It 
seemed annoying at first, but now I like it.

To change what it says (instead of MetaCard):

Right click on your .app in OS X, choose "view package contents"

Open the contents folder

open the info.plist file

CFBundleName has the name that goes there - you can change it to say whatever.


The "Metacard" (application) menu should have a Quit option, too - 
you will need to handle that using an appleevent if you want to 
intercept the quit message (from the finder, or other applications) 
..if you are ok withit just quitting, then ignore it.

on appleEvent sClass,sID,sSender
   if sID = "quit" then
     mainQuit # or whatever your beforeQuit function looks like
   else
     # go on, quit!
     pass appleEvent
   end if

end appleEvent

-ml




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>Message: 3
>Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 02:42:21 -0500
>To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
>From: Shari <gypsyware at earthlink.net>
>Subject: Metacard menu?
>Reply-To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
>
>Had a beta tester ask what the "Metacard menu" was for.  She sent me
>screenshots.
>
>For some reason, in OSX, a menu entitled "Metacard" was inserted
>before my menus.  I thought at first there was a problem with the
>"About..." menuItem.  But no, she sent me a screenshot of my "About"
>screens, and they are fine.
>
>Apparently there's nothing in the menu, just the title.
>
>Has anyone experienced this?
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