I got it working by creating a symbolic link to the Python interpreter to be used in my application package and using this symbolic link to start the main Python script.
Gregory Ewing wrote: > Detlev Offenbach wrote: >> I am fairly new to Mac OS X and would like to know, what I have to do >> to make my Python application show the correct name in the menu bar. >> What did I do so far. I created an application package containing the >> .plist file with correct entries and a shell script, that starts the >> correct Python interpreter with the the main script. > > I don't think that will work, because the executable that > your shell script is starting is in an app bundle of its > own, and MacOSX will be using the plist from that bundle, > which just has the generic "Python" name in it. > > There are a couple of things you could do: > > 1) Use py2app to create your app bundle. It does the > right things -- not sure exactly what, but it works. > > 2) Hack things at run time. I use the following PyObjC > code in PyGUI to set the application name: > > from Foundation import NSBundle > > ns_bundle = NSBundle.mainBundle() > ns_info = ns_bundle.localizedInfoDictionary() > if not ns_info: > ns_info = ns_bundle.infoDictionary() > ns_info['CFBundleName'] = my_application_name > -- Detlev Offenbach det...@die-offenbachs.de -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
