Application Title on MacOS

[wayne-c]

How can I set the Title for my application that is displayed in the Mac main Menubar? It takes the file name, but this is all lowercase; is there a way (CocoaMessage?) to change the title manually?

Thank you in advance,
kind regards

[TI-994A]

How can I set the Title for my application that is displayed in the Mac main Menubar? It takes the file name, but this is all lowercase; is there a way (CocoaMessage?) to change the title manually?

Yes, but only manually.

1. Right click on the app file name in Finder (MacOS file explorer).
2. Select Show Package Contents from the context menu that appears.
3. Go into the Contents folder (by double-clicking it).
4. Open the file Info.plist with your editor of choice (by right-clicking on Info.plist and selecting the preferred editor in the Open With... menu).
5. Insert the following key/value entry, preferably at the end, just before the last </dict> tag. Be careful not to place it in between other key/value entries.

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<key>CFBundleName</key>
<string>The Title To Display</string>

6. It should look something like this:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer...
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
    <string>English</string>
    ...
    ...
    ...
    <key>Some other key</key>
    <string>some other value</string>
    <key>CFBundleName</key>
    <string>The Title To Display</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Save the file, and that's it! The new title should be displayed on the topmost menubar when the app is running.

[wayne-c]

@TI-994A : thank you
@Fred : could this be integrated in the process of creating the app bundle directly?

[Wolfram]

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