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Don - 09 Oct 2007 09:13 GMT

Hi,

I made an wx application with a menu item About, which will display an About
dialog.

The problem is : under MacOSX, there's a system default "About..." menu
item.

It makes 2 "About" menu items in the menu, and the system's About does
nothing.

How can I set in Xcode to use the system About menu item to display my About
dialog under MacOSX?

Thank you in advance.

Don

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Michael Ash - 09 Oct 2007 11:38 GMT

> Hi,
>
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> The problem is : under MacOSX, there's a system default "About..." menu
> item.

No there isn't. Everything in your menus (which is to say everything in
all of the menus besides the Apple menu) is under your control.

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Simon Slavin - 11 Oct 2007 20:07 GMT

On 09/10/2007, Don wrote in message
<470b383c$0$2150$426a34cc@news.free.fr>:

> I made an wx application with a menu item About, which will display an
> About dialog.
>
> The problem is : under MacOSX, there's a system default "About..." menu
> item.

That's fine. You can still use your own dialog, just use the existing
menu item to display it.

> It makes 2 "About" menu items in the menu, and the system's About does
> nothing.

Don't make your own one, exploit the one already made for you.

> How can I set in Xcode to use the system About menu item to display my
> About dialog under MacOSX?

I don't know what 'wx' means in this context, but I assume your project
includes .nib files which can be edited using Interface Builder. So use
Interface Builder and link the 'About' menu item with your own routine.
It's only using the default 'About' routine because you haven't linked it
to anything else.

Simon.

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