Any way to hide the primary menu?

Targets macOS
1

For a kiosk app I need to have my own menu.
I’m seeking a solution to remove the DesktopQuitMenuItem or to completely hide the primary app menu that is before File menu.

I cannot find a way.

2

Set SystemUIVisible to False. DesktopWindow — Xojo documentation

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3

Thanks, I still want the menu bar. I just do not want the Quit menu. it seems to be added automatically when I try to remove it.

4

One thing that you can do is to prevent the app from quitting if the user isn’t pressing a particular key.

In Window.CancelClose:

If Not Keyboard.ShiftKeyDown then
    Return True
End If

Then the user would have to hold the SHIFT key down while selecting the Quit menu item.

If you use a key that can’t be used in conjunction with a menu, you’ll effectively get what you want.

5

Found a way using last idea. You can only quit from a secret window where I added a Quit button

I put that in Window.CancelClose of the main code

If Preferences.DisableQuit = “YES” then

If app.AllowQuit = 0 then
Return true
Else
Return False
End if

End If

6

Note that you can rewrite it like this:

Return App.AllowQuit=0

7

THanks. I wish you had options like this for the application menu because now I have the problem to remove the Hide menu and I cannot find a way.

Why such function is not available for application menu?
EditMenu.RemoveMenuAt(3)

8

Since you’re apparently on macOS, you could use a declare for this in the Opening event of the window:

Declare Sub canHide lib "foundation" selector "setCanHide:" (win as ptr, value as Boolean)

CanHide(self.Handle, false)

According to the docs, even if the application is hidden, the Window will not.

9

This last idea is not hiding the window that is good but it select the app on the Finder.

10

Opera have Cmd-Shift-Q for immediate Quit; otherwise, you get asked if you really want to quit. I strongly dislike that, but sometimes I press Cmd-Q instead of Cmd-A (or whatever…) :wink: