OS-X native installers and "Apple menu" support module
Tim Boudreau <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.java.netbeans.user-interface |
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Hi, all, I just checked some stuff into contrib that may be of interest to os-x users. There are two things: - An ant script that will build a native apple .pkg installer for NetBeans. It also does some rearranging of the installation structure to match a standard OS-X .app package and munges runide.sh to find it, then packages it up into an installer package and generates a disk image of it. There are also some targets for generating application tarballs, etc. Should be applicable to any app based on NetBeans (probably with only build.properties changes): http://contrib.netbeans.org/osx-native-installer/readme.html (source in contrib/osx-native-installer) (You probably need some BSD/NeXT command line utils to build it on a non OS-X machine) - A trivial module which makes NetBeans interact properly with the "Apple menu" - it hides the following actions: Help | About, Tools | Options and File | Exit, and rewires them to be invoked from their standard homes in the Apple menu. This has the nice side effect that pressing Meta-Q no longer brutally kills NetBeans' process. It's in contrib/osx-native-installer/applemenu - you need either OSX or Apple's stub library for compiling against their extensions on non-Apple machines. Also just checked in some toolbar ui enhancements. Enjoy, Tim