Re: trick to getting an NSMenu to be app's main menu?

On Feb 8, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Chad Leigh -- ObjectWerks Inc
> <chad+macosx-AU1NHruoRJaEK/[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is there a trick to replacing the main menu?  I have read through the menu handling and NSApplication bits on apple.com but did not see anything obvious.
> 
> This isn't supported. There's a lot of hackery going on inside AppKit
> to implement NSMenu on top of the Carbon Menu Manager.

ok

> 
> What you're doing isn't likely to work anyway, since you seem not to
> be running the main runloop. But then again, you have omitted a decent
> chunk of code.

ok thanks, I will try one more thing and then forget about it.  I don't really need this anyway at this point

> 
> It strikes me as pointless to attempt to do anything before loading
> any external bundles. All I have to do is insert my own library in the
> DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES envar and bypass all of your license checking
> code.

Well, it is not that easy since the main app itself does checks throughout against the license stuff set up in this initial bit of code but of course nothing is foolproof

> 
> Just like locks, licensing panels serve to keep keep honest people honest.

indeed

best
Chad

> 
> --Kyle Sluder