MNU 1.7.0

For usage and other information, please see the MNU web site.

Development Scripts

Run mnuprep.sh from the Scripts folder to prep in-app menu and popover graphics. Source: one or more large-size masters (PNGs or JPEGs).

The script postinstall.sh is used to kill an existing app instance after re-installation.

Release Notes

• 1.7.0 20 June 2023
  • Add key equiavalents with modifiers to menu items.
  • Replace the item show/hide gree/red dots with switches so...
  • ...end support for macOS 10.14: 10.15 (Catalina, 2019) is the new minium supported version.
  • Better Configure MNU item action icons.
  • Internal improvements.
  • Fix crash on clicking any help button.
  • Fix feedback system.
• 1.6.3 8 May 2022
  • Correct Help URL.
• 1.6.2 5 October 2021
  • Fix old, unchanged dates.
• 1.6.1 23 July 2021
  • Call external processes, eg. Terminal, from a secondary thread.
  • Attempt to fix issue in which changes to a menu item's code are not registered.
• 1.6.0 6 June 2021
  • Added iTerm2 support.
  • Added new default items.
  • Improved handling of spaces in direct commands’ path arguments.
  • Improved escape character handling.
  • Improved script and script title field presentation when editing a script.
• 1.5.2 19 May 2021
  • Correctly record the preference for starting MNU automatically at login.
  • Fix start up crash on systems that record binary values in Finder and GlobalDomain preferences in a different way to mine, eg. 1 vs YES (thanks to @jgoldhammer)
• 1.5.1 28 April 2021
  • Update brew update and brew upgrade scripts for M1 Macs:
    • Support brew at /opt/homebrew as well as /usr/local
  • Minor tweaks to the feedback system.
  • Update tests.
• 1.5.0 1 February 2021
  • Support all macOS app locations for ‘open app‘ actions:
    • /Applications
    • /Applications/Utilities
    • /System/Applications
    • /System/Applications/Utilities
    • ~/Applications
  • Correctly update the Configure Window’s view of the menu contents.
  • Make sure mutually exclusive menu item actions can’t be selected together.
  • Make sure out-of-terminal commands use absolute paths.
    • And in-path relative elements are evaluated.
  • Warn user when commands used by default items are not installed.
• 1.4.6 10 December 2020
  • Fix scrunched Configure MNU menu items table.
• 1.4.5 2 December 2020
  • Minor icon tweak; no code changes.
• 1.4.4 30 November 2020
  • Big Sur UI fixes:
    • Fix table rendering oddness.
    • Fix control spacing oddness.
• 1.4.3 17 November 2020
  • Apple Silicon support.
• 1.4.2 23 October 2020
  • Packaging update.
• 1.4.1 Not released
  • Minor improvements.
• 1.4.0 21 September 2020
  • Big Sur support.
  • Preliminary Apple Silicon support.
• 1.3.0 06 August 2020
  • Preliminary support for double-quotes in Terminal commands.
  • Update code to avoid deprecated calls.
  • Better recovery when the MNU item list is damaged.
  • Better serialization and de-serialization.
  • Add unit tests.
• 1.2.2 9 June 2020
  • Add ability to run items directly, without a shell.
• 1.2.1 4 February 2020
  • Add copy, cut, paste, select all, undo and redo to the Add/Edit User Item text fields.
• 1.2.0 14 January 2020
  • Add ability to launch named apps.
  • Better handling of duplicate menu item titles.
• 1.1.1 20 November 2019
  • Add app restart script for installer package.
• 1.1.0 28 October 2019
  • Add an extra controls button to the Configure window:
    • Export a JSON representation of the current menu item lits for backup and/or sync across Macs.
    • Import JSON backups.
  • Add tooltips to key UI items.
• 1.0.1 9 October 2019
  • Minor improvements.
  • Show correct version in MNU menu bar tooltip.
• 1.0.0 17 September 2019
  • Initial public release.

Copyright

MNU is copyright © 2023, Tony Smith.

Licence

MNU’s source code is issued under the MIT Licence. MNU’s graphics are not included in the source code.