I started a project to use the MacOS menu bar from...

# tornadofx

[sbyrne]

I started a project to use the MacOS menu bar from TornadoFX applications. It needs some cleanup to be usable as a library, but it proves the approach: https://github.com/smbyrne/tfxmmb

[alex]

it's a common problem for any platform, and solution to this are wrappers, some are free (i.e. java packager tool or launch4j), some are not (install4j). It's a broad topic, you can find a lot information about it.

[alex]

IDEA has separate dedicated subproject for generating native launchers. It's another acceptable approach

[sbyrne]

I just generate tgz's for linux, zip's for windows, and app zip's for macos.

[alex]

No I mean the issue with process naming (and menu bar on MacOS). These properties are inherited from process, i.e. if you run java -jar <yourapp> then the process is java, and name is java, icon is default java icon etc

[alex]

so you need some simple binary to wrap up the launch process

[sbyrne]

Oh. I am setting that in the Info.plist.

[sbyrne]

That lets you override the binary name.