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[MACTCL] About window

[Trevor W. <pha...@me...>]

Does anyone know how to associate the About... menu with either a custom about window or get my application-specific about information to appear?  I have the Info.plist file in the Contents directory to only contain my information and the name of the application in the About... menu is correct; however, clicking on this menu reveals an About window for Tcl/Tk itself.  If I grep for one of the strings in the Tcl/Tk About window, the only files containing a match are the wish and tclsh executables.

I am using version 8.5.15.  Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Trevor

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Re: [MACTCL] About window

[Kevin W. <kw...@co...>]

On 12/15/14, 6:54 PM, Trevor Williams wrote:
> I am using version 8.5.15.  Anyone have any ideas?
The simplest way is to map the command tkAboutWindow to your own code, i.e.

proc tkAboutWindow {} {

##my custom app window code goes here

}

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Re: [MACTCL] About window

[David Z. <kr...@kr...>]

Le 16 déc. 2014 à 00:54, Trevor Williams <pha...@me...> a écrit :

> Does anyone know how to associate the About... menu with either a custom about window or get my application-specific about information to appear?  I have the Info.plist file in the Contents directory to only contain my information and the name of the application in the About... menu is correct; however, clicking on this menu reveals an About window for Tcl/Tk itself.  If I grep for one of the strings in the Tcl/Tk About window, the only files containing a match are the wish and tclsh executables.
> 
> I am using version 8.5.15.  Anyone have any ideas?

On my scripts I do that:

if {[tk windowingsystem] eq "aqua"} {
	menu .menu
	menu .menu.apple -tearoff 0
	.menu add cascade -label "Apple" -menu .menu.apple
	.menu.apple add command -label "About $::appname" -command ::tk::mac::standardAboutPanel
	# This line must be at the end to work with recent Tk versions:
	. configure -menu .menu
}

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Re: [MACTCL] About window

[Russell O. <ro...@uw...>]

On 12/15/14 3:54 PM, Trevor Williams wrote:
> Does anyone know how to associate the About... menu with either a custom about window or get my application-specific about information to appear?  I have the Info.plist file in the Contents directory to only contain my information and the name of the application in the About... menu is correct; however, clicking on this menu reveals an About window for Tcl/Tk itself.  If I grep for one of the strings in the Tcl/Tk About window, the only files containing a match are the wish and tclsh executables.
>
> I am using version 8.5.15.  Anyone have any ideas?

I've found that I just had to listen for the About menu item name with 
using menu.add_command(label=aboutMenuLabel, ...)
where aboutMenuLabel is of the form "About <appName>"

This is different than other Mac-specific menu items such as 
Preferences, Help and Quit, all of which use this form:
root.createcommand("::tk::mac::ShowPreferences", func).