[Pythonmac-SIG] Patch to IDLE

[Kevin Walzer]

I'm trying to patch IDLE to work better with the Cocoa fork of Tcl/Tk. 
With Tk-Cocoa, in order to correctly set up the Apple/Application menu, 
you have to call the equivalent of 'self.configure(menu=menubar)' after 
everything else is set up. Otherwise the hard-coded "About Tcl/Tk" menu 
item remains, and the menu override is moved to the very end of the 
menu, after "Help." (So there are two "IDLE" menus under this scenario.)

In macosxSupport.py, in the function overrideRootMenu(), there is a call 
to root.configure(menu=menubar); I thought moving this to the end of the 
function would work. However, no matter where this line is set, it has 
no effect; the overridden IDLE menu still sits at the end of the 
menubar. My question is, where in idlelib would be the best place to 
call this configuration option to ensure that the entire menu is built 
before it is bound/set to the root menu? There are many calls to 
macosxSupport.py in idlelib, and that's the "root" for overriding the Tk 
menu, so I thought that was where it should be done...but I'm not sure.

Advice is appreciated. If I get this resolved, I'll submit a patch to 
support Tk 8.6, when Cocoa will move from a fork to trunk in Tk 
development.

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Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com