How to set app name in macOS, gradle?

[Michael Paus]

You can achieve this when you bundle your application with jpackage.
For proper macOS menubar handling you should also consider to use
the library NSMenuFX (https://github.com/codecentric/NSMenuFX) because
JavaFX itself still cannot do that.
Michael

Am 17.09.20 um 19:11 schrieb Rob Nikander:
> Hi,
>
> I’m trying to set the text shown in the macOS menubar. The advice I see online says to use -Xdock:name, but when I try that, I still see “java” in the menubar. Is there a way to make it use “MyAppName”?  Some of my build.gradle.kts file is shown below.
>
> Rob
>      
>
> plugins {
>      application
>      kotlin("jvm") version "1.4.10"
>      id("org.openjfx.javafxplugin") version "0.0.9"
> }
>
> application {
>      mainClass.set(“myapp.MainKt")
>      applicationName = "MyAppName"
>      applicationDefaultJvmArgs = listOf(
>              "-Xdock:name=MyAppName"
>      )
> }
>
> javafx {
>      version = "15"
>      modules = listOf("javafx.controls”)
> }
>
>