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Iain
Iain

Reputation: 300

Clojure seesaw application: How to change menubar title from "main"

In my standalone app written in clojure using seesaw to create the gui, and running under OSX, I get a menubar title "main". This appears to be the default for seesaw based programs. I see it in any of the tutorial examples available. Here is what mine looks like:

The offending menu title

I have tried renaming the (-main) function. The above image was taken with (-main) renamed to (-soulflyer) so it isn't choosing the title from that. Here is a snippet of the code:

(defn -soulflyer [& args]
  (invoke-later
   (let [f                (make-frame)
         details          (select f [:#details])
         image-pane       (select f [:#image])
         keyword-tree     (select f [:#tree])
8<---snip

Note this was run from the repl, the standalone version needs to have a -main function.

this is a section of the (make-frame) function:

(frame
 :title "Keyword Explorer"
 :size [1400 :by 800]
 :menubar
 (menubar :items
          [(menu :text "File" :items [])
           (menu :text "Edit" :items [])])
 :content
8<---snip

so the :title value only affects the title in the window not in the menubar.

Is there any way of changing this from clojure?

Edit: the project.clj file may be useful (rest of the code is at https://github.com/soulflyer/find-pics):

(defproject find-pics "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"
  :description "Search for images containing specified keywords"
  :url "http://githube.com/soulflyer/find-pics"
  :license {:name "Eclipse Public License"
            :url "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html"}
  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.7.0"]
                 [seesaw "1.4.5"]
                 [image-lib "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"]
                 [com.novemberain/monger "3.0.1"]
                 [org.clojure/tools.cli "0.3.3"]]
  :main find-pics.core
  :bin {:name "find-pics"
    :bin-path "~/bin"})

Upvotes: 2

Views: 255

Answers (1)

ntalbs
ntalbs

Reputation: 29458

Short answer is that you should add :jvm-opts ["-Xdock:name=YOUR_APP_NAME"] in the project.clj file.

Java Application in Mac OS X has an application menu. This application menu, by default, contains the full name of the main class as the title. If you want to change this, you can pass -Xdock:name VM argument like this.

java -Xdock:name=YOUR_APP_NAME ...

It seems that clojure function compiled into Java class. That's why the application menu appears as main, which is the same as main function name. Since you can not change the function name, you should add -Xdock:name=YOUR_APP_NAME to :jvm-opts.

For more detail, you can read the following document:

OS X Integration for Java

Upvotes: 3

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