Enabling "About MyApp"

Bill Vlahos bvlahos at mac.com
Mon Nov 16 13:52:22 EST 2020


This seems to be a bug in 9.6.1 for MacOS. Add a case statement for just “About”. The case statement for “About MyApp” won’t be recognized.

Thanks to Elanor at LiveCode for pointing this out.

Regards,
Bill Vlahos

> On Nov 15, 2020, at 11:56 AM, Bill Vlahos via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a app that has the About as the last item in the Help menu.
> 
> It works in the Windows build but not in the Mac build (MacOS 10.14.6). It worked in previous versions. I don’t see anything wrong.
> 
> The symptoms on the Mac is that the About item is in the correct place but the script is not run when selected.
> 
> LiveCode 9.6.1 Indy.
> 
> Not sure why the script isn’t run.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Bill Vlahos
> 
>> On May 11, 2020, at 4:40 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> GEORGE WOOD wrote:
>> 
>>> How can I activate the "About MyApp" under the Apple menu?
>> 
>> On other OSes the "About" item is usually the last item in the Help menu.  If you put your About item there, you'll find that when LC automatically translates its menu objects for the Mac menu bar it'll move your About item to the application menu.
>> 
>> In fact, a similar thing happens with "Preferences". On most platforms it's the last item in the Edit menu, and when you put a "Preferences" item there the automatic menu bar change that LC does will put it in the application menu as well, below About.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Richard Gaskin
>> Fourth World Systems
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