Runtime application menu bar

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Hi

I’ve got quite a weird question, or at least, not a very common one. Let me just get straight into it.
Is there a way to either easily implement a menu bar into your application/game or “hack” it in?

(if you are not sure what I mean by menu bar)
Menu bar examples

Windows:

OSX:

I won’t really go into why I need this. Just wondering if it is possible by any means?

EDIT: I realize now afterward that this might be more fitting to put in the “Platforms” forum section. If a mod agrees, please move it.

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Getting a native one is a bit of a pain. But you can fake it with the UI.

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I know you can fake it, and that’s what I’ve already done. But I want to go native, no matter the pain! :stuck_out_tongue:

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To what end though?

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Hey :slight_smile:

Well, I know you can do that on Mac.
When you build your standalone Mac. Right click on yourBuild.app, Show Package Contents, and navigate to Contents/Resources/MainMenu.nib
Open the file with XCode, and you’ll see that you can edit here the menu bar!

But that’s all I know, don’t ask me how to add new items or callbacks when an item is clicked etc…
But hey, it’s a start :slight_smile:

At least on Mac!

For Windows, maybe you can achieve that with native plugin, by accessing the current window or something and add a bar? I really don’t know.

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I want it to look like it “belongs” a bit more.

Thank you for this information! It will come in handy if I ever get my hands on a Mac! (that sounded sarcastic, didn’t mean it in a sarcastic way. :P) I’ll do some more research when the time comes!

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@Hertzole , did you find a way to modify the menubar? It will be useful for the project i’m currently working on,

Thanks,
Pranav

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To what end, it’s a game engine and not meant for creating native applications. Good luck trying to get native looking UI on each platform.

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Hi

I was thinking, if I can somehow access that file menu on the menubar, I can access the export gameobject option in it, so that when I press a button in the gamemode, it exports the gameobject in the .obj format without having to go through the complex process of serializing all the objects.

Regards,
Pranav

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@Hertzole Were you able to figure it out? I’m interested in doing this also.

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Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find a way to do it.

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