MNU 1.7.1

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.

Building the App

Items in the Xcode project-view folder YOU MUST SUPPLY are not included in this repo. You build the code, you must either replace these items with your own (app icon, menu bar icon, menu item images, menu item selection images and other visual assets) or comment out the code that makes use of them.

Release Notes

• 1.7.1 30 April 2024
  • Clarify which code you must supply to build the app.
  • Fix some typos.
  • Automate build number incrementation.
  • No functional changes.
• 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 © 2024, Tony Smith.

Licence

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