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Modifying the main menu and app title on OSX [message #1075488] Mon, 29 July 2013 14:09
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<p class="p1">If one creates the simple "Hello RCP" app using the basic wizard in Eclipse, it creates a simple window with "Hello RCP" as the title of the "window" that it creates.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>However, the main menu bar is named "SWT" and has two menu items "Run" and "Search".<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I figured out (through some painful searches and experiments) how to set up my own menus and items, but it isn't clear how to programmatically remove these other menus/items.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>They get set somewhere in the bowels of the RCP setup but it isn't immediately obvious where (and if<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>documented I couldn't find it).</p>
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<p class="p1">Moreover, the main menubar title is "SWT".<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Again, it isn't clear how to change it to my own title - changing the value in the product file doesn't work.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I found one article that proposed dealing with it for standalone SWT apps by renaming the shell</p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1"><a href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2012/07/19/configuring-the-os-x-application-menu-for-swt-apps/">http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2012/07/19/configuring-the-os-x-application-menu-for-swt-apps/</a></span><span class="s2"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="p1">But he blithely says that it works fine in RCP apps.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Unfortunately this is not true as checking out innumerable tutorials shows.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I've even seen some "production" RCP apps that say 'SWT' on the main menu bar.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I've yet to come across a RCP app that has it's own name on the main menu bar (not the client window, the main menu bar or window).<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I tried getting the runtime shell and changing the text but that didn't work either.</p>
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<p class="p1">Perhaps it's obvious, but not to me.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Anyone know how this might be done?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<p class="p1">TIA, RIc</p>
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