I'm trying to patch IDLE to work better with the Cocoa fork of Tcl/Tk.
With Tk-Cocoa, in order to correctly set up the Apple/Application menu,
you have to call the equivalent of 'self.configure(menu=menubar)' after
everything else is set up. Otherwise the hard-coded "About Tcl/Tk" menu
item remains, and the menu override is moved to the very end of the
menu, after "Help." (So there are two "IDLE" menus under this scenario.)
In macosxSupport.py, in the function overrideRootMenu(), there is a call
to root.configure(menu=menubar); I thought moving this to the end of the
function would work. However, no matter where this line is set, it has
no effect; the overridden IDLE menu still sits at the end of the
menubar. My question is, where in idlelib would be the best place to
call this configuration option to ensure that the entire menu is built
before it is bound/set to the root menu? There are many calls to
macosxSupport.py in idlelib, and that's the "root" for overriding the Tk
menu, so I thought that was where it should be done...but I'm not sure.
Advice is appreciated. If I get this resolved, I'll submit a patch to
support Tk 8.6, when Cocoa will move from a fork to trunk in Tk
development.
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Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com
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