Re: REALbasic-NUG Digest #5668

[Mark Lewno <mark_lewno at amx dot com>]

Lou:

>By any chance, does your app use the OS X Preferences menu item and AppleEvent
to open the prefs dialog?

Yup.  

// allows pref testing in IDE runs
App:EnableMenuItems event:

  if debugBuild
    editPreferences.enabled=true
  else
    editPreferences.visible=false
  end if


App:Menu Handlers:EditPreferences:
   HandlePrefsMenu


App:HandleAppleEvent event:

  Select Case eventClass
  case "aevt"
    select Case eventID
    case "pref"
      handlePrefsMenu
    end select
  end select
  return TRUE


// For built apps
cVPrefs:Initialize Method:

  #IF TargetCarbon
  MMiscEnablePreferencesMenuItem
  MMiscSetPrefsMenuItemText app.appname+ " Preferences..."
  MMiscSetQuitMenuItemText "Quit "+app.appname
  #ENDIF

(this from the preferences portion of my app framework)

MMisc is Chad McQuinn's plugin.