Re: [MACTCL] Ditch built-in first Help menu entry?

[Damon C. <da...@tc...>]

Sent a reply to Russell and didn’t CC the list.

Basically, define a ::tk::mac::ShowHelp proc instead of adding your own menu item. You can find information about various bits of Tk/Mac wackiness here:

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TkCmd/tk_mac.htm <http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TkCmd/tk_mac.htm>

Damon


> On Oct 28, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Russell Owen <ro...@uw...> wrote:
> 
> I distribute a cross-platform app that has several help links that I 
> manually add to the Help menu, the first of which is called "<app name> 
> Help". This works fine on all platforms except MacOS, where I see two 
> entries for "<app name> Help", the first of which is shown in a small 
> font (I guess the MacOS default for the help menu) which brings up a 
> dialog saying that this application does not have any help. The second 
> (in the normal menu item font, like all the remaining entries) works as 
> expected.
> 
> My question is: is there some way to eliminate that first help entry? Or 
> is there some way to connect it to my own help (though I'd prefer the 
> first, if it's easy to do).
> 
> -- Russell
> 
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