Mac Menubar

[zenroth]

Anyways to make this actually functional or add entries to it?

[Hiura]

This is planned for 2.x. See https://github.com/SFML/SFML/issues/11

[zenroth]

Hmm, not what I was hoping to hear. I guess I might need to hack in my own simple menu bar somewhere, as I have a feeling Apple will likely reject this non-functional one.

[Ceylo]

I don't really know what you want to do, but in any case you can still develop a Cocoa application where you set the menu bar as you want, and then create SFML windows within the Cocoa application.

[zenroth]

I don't really know what you want to do, but in any case you can still develop a Cocoa application where you set the menu bar as you want, and then create SFML windows within the Cocoa application.

Well 8 months down the road and this issue has come up to bite me. Our one game on the Mac App Store, has now been denied an update due to lacking a menu bar, and specifically the ability to click on the App name in the menu bar and select quit.

Has there been any progress on this general issue? If not I guess I'll be trying to embed my game into an existing cocoa window.

[Hiura]

unfortunately I haven't had the time to work on this issue yet. So no progress so far.

[zenroth]

unfortunately I haven't had the time to work on this issue yet. So no progress so far.

Oh well no worries, just wanted to check, before diving off into the deep.

Do you know if I should expect any major issues if I try an use SFML from within a existing cocoa setup? I pretty much just use SMFL for doing the OpenGL context creation and input gathering.

I suppose the biggest headache might just be the event stuff.

[Hiura]

Events should work the same way (theoretically). If something doesn't just tell me.

The main difficulty I had when writing the cocoa example was to mix C++ and Objective-C. From what I recall there are a few tricks like C++ constructor not being called on C++ attribute in a Objective-C class (use new/delete to workaround that).

[Acrobat]

You can do it without going deep in sfml, application. Just do it as always.

[Hiura]

what do you mean by «as always» ?

[Acrobat]

You can use [NSApplication sharedApplication] in application, as i remember you can add menu there. Am i wrong ?

[Hiura]

yes, probably, but wouldn't be easier to use the interface build to do it ? I mean, in any case you need some obj-c object to catch the action so it simpler to design everything in Xcode with some nice drag'n'drops than doing everything in code.

[zenroth]

Thanks guys, I hadn't even realized there was a cocoa example.  I'll also take a look at the whole  [NSApplication sharedApplication] i've actually never used interface builder, despite doing Obj C and so forth. (Admittedly I try to limit Obj C to the bare minimum.)

[zenroth]

Alright this was actually trivial to accomplish it seems.

I just created a little objective c interface to handle my callbacks, set NSApp's delegate to my own callback which SFML doesn't appear to touch, then created a menu and added it via [NSApp setMainMenu:];

I then populated the menu with the standard menu item entries like about, show all, hide, and quit.

I was able to do all of this inside of my own initialization routines and didn't need to mess with nib files or cocoa runloops or anything, in about 40 lines total i'd guess.

Finally wrap the code in a #ifdef for mac platform.

[Hiura]

ho nice ! I thought it was more complicated than that. Could you upload the piece of code ?