Re: Changing app menu title programmatically

FROM : John Stiles
DATE : Thu Feb 14 20:31:44 2008

There is no Apple-sanctioned way to change the title of this menu, and I
haven't found a good way to do it by hook or crook either. Sorry.


Matthew Gertner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our application lets the user create new app bundles that have their
> own name, icon, etc. but which actually spawn the original application
> (with the appropriate command-line parameters) using exec. I would
> like the generated app bundle to display the name of that application
> as the title of the application menu. But since it's spawning the
> original app, it uses its title. For example, if I use the original
> app "Foo" to create a new app bundle called "Bar", I'll see "Bar" on
> my desktop with the right icon, etc. But when I run it, it actually
> runs Foo (since the bar executable is just a script that calls "exec
> foo") and the title of the app menu is still "Foo".
>
> I can see two possible ways to fix this. One is to change something in
> Bar's app bundle so that the right name is used. I tried changing
> CFBundleName in Info.plist, however, and this doesn't appear to have
> any effect. Whatever I try, the name from the spawned app bundle (Foo)
> is always used.
>
> I also tried changing the menu title programmatically by registering a
> notification sink for NSApplicationDidFinishLaunchingNotification. I
> read somewhere that I should use:
>
> [[NSApp mainMenu] itemAtIndex:0] submenu]
>
> ...to get the application menu. When I do so, I get a menu with the
> title "Apple" (rather than "Foo" which is what I expected). When I
> change the title (using setTitle), the change is not reflected in the UI.
>
> Am I way off base in taking this approach? If so, what approach would
> you recommend? If not, what do I need to do to get the menu's title to
> change in the UI?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Matt
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