wxruby users - Mar 2010 - [BUG] Menus on Snow Leopard not working correctly

I posted the following bug at
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=27962&group_id=35&atid=218.
Is anyone else dealing with this?
> In running the 2.0.1 samples under OS X 10.6.2, some menu items do not
appear as they should.
> 
> For example:
> * in the "minimal" sample, the "file" menu appears in
the menu bar, but the individual items do not appear; same with the
"Help" menu - appears without added items.
> * In the bigdemo sample, the "File" and "Help" menus
are also empty, but the "Demo" menu seems fine (contains many
options).
> 
> I''m running the samples with #!/usr/bin/env arch -i386 ruby.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Sean

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Hello Sean,

This is a feature / bug with wxWidgets on Mac OS X.  The menus File and Help
are actually combined into the "Main" Menu Item, which is the name of
the
application that is running.  Such as Quit, Preferences and Help gets put
under the application name main menu, instead of under File, or Help.  This
is Mac OS X''s way of doing things.

hth,

Mario

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 5:01 PM, DeNigris Sean <sean at
clipperadams.com>wrote:
> I posted the following bug at
>
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=27962&group_id=35&atid=218
> .
> Is anyone else dealing with this?
>
> In running the 2.0.1 samples under OS X 10.6.2, some menu items do not
> appear as they should. For example: * in the "minimal" sample,
the "file"
> menu appears in the menu bar, but the individual items do not appear; same
> with the "Help" menu - appears without added items. * In the
bigdemo sample,
> the "File" and "Help" menus are also empty, but the
"Demo" menu seems fine
> (contains many options). I''m running the samples with
#!/usr/bin/env arch
> -i386 ruby. Thanks! Sean
>
>
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> This is a feature / bug with wxWidgets on Mac OS X.  The menus File and
Help are actually combined into the "Main" Menu Item, which is the
name of the application that is running.  Such as Quit, Preferences and Help
gets put under the application name main menu, instead of under File, or Help. 
This is Mac OS X''s way of doing things.
Aha, okay.  Sounds good - except for two things:
1. it *shows" a File menu, which is weird (from a user standpoint).  Is
there a way to have it not show "File" at all and put the items under
the [application name] menu?
2. it doesn''t show an [application name] menu at all, but a
"ruby" menu, which is also weird and not-very-mac.  Is there a way to
actually get the app name there instead of "ruby"?

Thanks for the help!
Sean

Hello again Sean,

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 5:43 PM, DeNigris Sean <sean at
clipperadams.com>wrote:
> > This is a feature / bug with wxWidgets on Mac OS X.  The menus File
and
> Help are actually combined into the "Main" Menu Item, which is
the name of
> the application that is running.  Such as Quit, Preferences and Help gets
> put under the application name main menu, instead of under File, or Help.
>  This is Mac OS X''s way of doing things.
> Aha, okay.  Sounds good - except for two things:
> 1. it *shows" a File menu, which is weird (from a user standpoint). 
Is
> there a way to have it not show "File" at all and put the items
under the
> [application name] menu?
>
I have not found a way to do this, Alex has more experience with this sort
of thing, then I do.

> 2. it doesn''t show an [application name] menu at all, but a
"ruby" menu,
> which is also weird and not-very-mac.  Is there a way to actually get the
> app name there instead of "ruby"?
>
This has been answered before, there''s two ways in which you can
achieve
this.  The first is to rename the ruby executable (Which Mac OS X uses) to
the name of your application, which isn''t ideal.  Or, you can use the
.app
Directory creation for your program, and put in a manifest file that will
describe what the program is, how to launch it, and what the Application
name is.  This second method is the ideal method in which to do it, as it
solves a lot of problems, and gives you more options.  If you look at
Alex''s
Weft-QDA Rake file, for OS X here:
http://weft-qda.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/weft-qda/rake/rake_osx.rb  You can
learn much about how to create an .app directory, to store your program
code, and executables in.

>
> Thanks for the help!
>
Your welcome.

> Sean
>
hth,
Mario

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