Re: macOS Default Menu Handling

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On Sun, 31 May 2026, Ryan Ogurek wrote:

> Oh, nevermind.
> I'm not sure why I was thinking changing the `s_macAboutMenuItemId` would=
 change anything...
>=20
> Indeed, the label is replaced in any case, afaics, which seems to wholly =
defeat the (relevant bits of) logic in
> CreateAppleMenu().
>=20
> So, what's going on here?
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> On Sunday, May 31, 2026 at 10:10:07=E2=80=AFPM UTC-4 Ryan Ogurek wrote:
>       Hello,
> I've been looking at the way wxWidgets handles the macOS "default" items =
like "About" and "Preferences,"
> and I'm a bit confused by it, stepping through the code with a debugger a=
 bit.
>=20
> I see CreateAppleMenu() and MacInstallMenuBar() in menu_osx.cpp, where in=
 the former the About and
> preferences items are added unconditionally (if the static item ids are s=
et) to a menu added to all menu
> bars (afaics).

There's an open issue about this, with some analysis and discussion:=20
https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/issues/16888

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