Mac Menus?

Ron Lussier wrote:

Would it be possible to generate a Mac version that used menu bar menus, rather than window menus? As I understand it, Apple makes this fairly simple... it's a setting of some sort.

I think what you are looking for is the following setting:
-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true
You put it in the info.plist inside the idea.app folder. This works like
a charm (but there is always an empty white line as first line of every
menu).

Best regards,

Dirk Dittert

Yup, the following should probably be added to the Info.plist file in idea.app:
apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar true apple.awt.window.position.forceSafeCreation true apple.awt.window.position.forceSafeProgrammaticPositioning true apple.awt.window.position.forceSafeUserPositioning]]>

What do the forceSafe keys do? I think I missed those in docs...are they in the relnotes for the OSX JVM?

Ron Lussier <jiveadmin@jetbrains.com> wrote:

Yup, the following should probably be added to the Info.plist file in
idea.app: <key>apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar</key> <string>true</string>
<key>apple.awt.window.position.forceSafeCreation</key>
<string>true</string>
<key>apple.awt.window.position.forceSafeProgrammaticPositioning</key>
<string>true</string>
<key>apple.awt.window.position.forceSafeUserPositioning</key>

Where can I find information about these properties? I tried a google
search on apple.awt.window.position but it did not return any results.

They are documented in the developer notes for 1.4.1 on the Mac:

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/ReleaseNotes/java141/system_properties/index.html

-jon

They keep windows from being created or moved to a place off-screen where you can no longer access them. (This seems like a good idea, unless IDEA is using hidden windows for some reason.)