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Menu
Resources
From
the artice in MacAddict
Magazine
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The
Menus -- you'll find more menus in Mac programs than in all
the restaurants in New York City combined, but hacking them
couldn't be easier. The resource you need to worry about is
blatantly labeled MENU. And it's simple to tweak the text in
these menus to say any silly thing you want.
Fickle
Finder
There are a few programs that don't use
Menu resources, and the Finder is one of
them. Of course, the Finder still has
menus; it just creates them at startup
from strings.
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There are quite a few different types of menu
resources:
- MENU - the basic resource, used for most things.
- MBAR - is the menu bar (or a grouping of MENU's), you
may rarely want to remove a whole MENU out of the menu
bar, and this is where you'd do that.
- hmnu - help menu (Balloons)
Now in addition to the basic types, there are some
additional information some programs use for Menus.
Different development tools (called frameworks) keep
additional menu information in their own additions. These
are:
- cmnu - MacApp uses this to keep command ID's.
- CMNU - MacApp uses this to keep command ID's. (I
forget which one is the older variant)
- fmnu - finder menu -- remember, the finder is a
little weird in how it works with menus.
- Mcmd - PowerPlant uses this to keep command
ID's.
- MDEF - menu definition, used if programmers want to
add custom code to how a menu will behave. So they can
add in things like Pictures, or tear off menus and so
on.
- xmnu - appearance menus
You are probable only going to want to have the plain old
MENUs. Here are a couple of hacks that will you show you the
most common things you are going to want to hack.
Menu shortcut hacking is the most useful kind of hack
because it can increase your productivity! Wow, a useful
hack, what is the world coming to? Have fun with menu
hacking and maybe it can even make your life a little
easier.
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