Metacard menu?

Shari gypsyware at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 8 16:55:01 EST 2002


Has anybody tried something like (in the programs startup script, perhaps):

if there is a btn "Metacard" then
    set the name of btn "Metacard" to xyz
    hide btn "Metacard"
    etc.
end if

Would something like this work?


>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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