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POSetting Mac OSX Application Menu menu bar item to other than "Python" in my python Qt application
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copied!<p>I am writing a GUI application using python and Qt. When I launch my application on Mac, the first menu item in the Mac menu bar at the top of the screen is "Python". I would prefer the application name there to be the name of my application. How can I get my program name up there?</p> <p>The following demo program creates a window with two menus: "Python", and "Foo". I don't like that, because it makes no difference to my users whether I wrote the app in python or COBOL. Instead I want menus "MyApp" and "Foo".</p> <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/python # This example demonstrates unwanted "Python" # application menu name on Mac. # Makes no difference whether we use PySide or PyQt4 from PySide.QtGui import * # from PyQt4.QtGui import * import sys app = QApplication(sys.argv) # Mac menubar application menu is always "Python". # I want "DesiredAppTitle" instead. # setApplicationName() does not affect Mac menu bar. app.setApplicationName("DesiredAppTitle") win = QMainWindow() # need None parent for menubar on Mac to get custom menus at all mbar = QMenuBar() # Add a custom menu to menubar. fooMenu = QMenu(mbar) fooMenu.setTitle("Foo") mbar.addAction(fooMenu.menuAction()) win.setMenuBar(mbar) win.show() sys.exit(app.exec_()) </code></pre> <p>How can I change that application menu name on Mac? EDIT: I would prefer to continue to use the system python (or whatever python is on the user PATH) if possible.</p>

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