 | Sep 12 2009 |
WARD I'll be updating to Snow Leopard next week, and I know I'll be leaving Menu Master behind. Menu Master seems unique in its one-step technique for customizing menu shortcuts (for the applications where it works). OS X System Prefs Keyboard Shortcuts and QuicKeys 4 are possible alternatives, but both are quite tedious. Has anyone found an effective replacement for Menu Master?
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| Sep 12 2009 |
EASER To a limited ability, you can do some of this with System Preferences Keyboard settings, even on an application-by-application basis. But it depends. I've found that it will not always accept some of the keyboard commands I want to use. And it's a definite pain to have to type in the exact wording of the program's menu item. Any changes made, by the way, appear to take place in the program's plist file in the User's Library Preferences folder. That, at least, has been handy when I've had to wipe my drive clean and reinstall. I keep a backup of all those preferences files. I tried the Keyboard Maestro record method, but it's too limited. For instance, I wanted to set up a command where a particular keystroke would let me move back and forth between tabs in Path Finder. (I wanted a different key command than what was already in PF.) But I found that what I recorded was not some kind of universal change. It worked only for switching back and forth between the two specific tabs I had originally recorded. I've also seen people mention Spark, and I've tinkered with that, but I can't find a way to make changes for a single program. In that regard, I've already been using Butler for the same purpose. But those changes are system wide. So, no, I wish I had something better. I've offered something of a bounty to anyone who can come up with an alternative windowshading program; you might check for that over here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6485 Maybe if we can find someone who's willing to take on the project under the terms I've proposed, we can get someone to do something like Menu Master as well.
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| Apr 20 2009 |
MARK_CAIRNS So when oh when will Unsanity start devoting resources to this must-have application again? The Adobe CS3 bug (Illustrator menus etc. with the sticky menus and the mouse pointer) in Tiger OSX 10.4.11 made this unusable and I had to begrudingly uninstall it. To say I miss it from my workflow would be an understatement. The 1.48 beta is just a joke. The implementation on Leopard OSX 10.56 is also incredibly buggy and I'm absolutely dying here without, especially with the industry software like Quark and CS3 being used every day.
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| Aug 26 2008 |
DANA SUTTON Launch KM. Select Macros panel. Click the + square at the foot of the page. This brings up the Macro Editor window. Click record. Navigate to the menu item of your choice (if this involves recording extra steps as KM observes you, you can manually remove them from the list). Choose "Save" Then go to "New Trigger > Hot Key" and select a keyboard command, one that doesn't conflict with one you already have. Save that too, give your Macro a name, and you're good to go. As far as I know, this feature works with all versions of KM so you don't need the latest and the greatest to achieve . Note: this allows you to create new keyboard equivalents for menu commands, but it doesn't allow you to assign new keyboard equivalents for existing ones or remove preexisting ones (although you can do these things from within programs with such ones as Office and Dreamweaver).
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| Aug 27 2008 |
EASER Thanks!
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| Aug 26 2008 |
MARK_CAIRNS "Silliness"? what? huh? Any chance of Unsanity getting off the drugs and onto some Red Bull by speaking plain English for the rest of us bought-and-paid-for MenuMaster users to understand what is actually fixed or improved instead of talking this nonsense.
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| Aug 26 2008 |
EASER Can you please tell me which macro in KM I use to do this? I'm still using version 2, so it might not be in that version. Thanks.
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| Aug 25 2008 |
DANA SUTTON I used to depend on Menu Master. Then it broke under Leopard and it has taken, what is it, ten months for the developer even to produce a beta? Since I had relied on MM for my work, I was forced to look around for a substitute,and I discovered that the recorded Macro feature of Keyboard Maestro allowed me to assign new keyboard equivalents to menu commands. Keyboard Maestro is a program, not a system-modifying hack, so it's a lot more benign, and I don't have to worry about going through this hassle again because of Menu Master possibly breaking with Snow Leopard or some other future version of OSX. I've found a very satisfactory substitute for Fruit Menu, too, so I don't think I'll be having any more to do with Haxies.
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| Aug 25 2008 |
SMTIPS P.S. I think software writers should be like...shot...for charging money for BETA versions....you want people to PAY YOU to TEST your unfinished product? Geezus...get real...trouble is some people are dum enough to actually do it.
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| Aug 26 2008 |
SIGIL I agree with smtips. Customers paying for a Beta... How does that make any sense?
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| Aug 25 2008 |
SMTIPS Opinion: Haxies bad. Fact: Won't be trying this I wish there was something that wasn't a haxie that could do similar. Won't be trying it after the comments that they told the guy how to "fix" the issue but not to tell other people. Dishonesty...lies. Not good. Stupidity on the dev's part. "Silly" to add "silliness" that can't be easily disabled to something that people rely on as a TOOL. Unsanity is stupid.
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 | Aug 25 2008 |
F451 Aren't people going little overboard? This is a BETA, the developer is definitively creative, so why not let her have a bit of fun now and then? Measures have been taken to turn off the Easter egg. And you can do your own thing too.
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| Aug 25 2008 |
EASER I'm confused by all of this "silly" stuff. The version I have installed is 1.4.3b2; guess I (luckily) missed 3b3. I didn't see it in 3b2, although one commetn on VersionTracker suggests it was added to that version. (It's not on mine.) Today, on both MacUpdate and VT, the update is listed as 3b3, yet it downloaded a 3b4 dmg file. I don't plan to install it. For heaven's sake, are there not any other programmers out there who can provide decent, competitive products? Please? You'd get our money.
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 | Aug 22 2008 |
STORMCHILD This is how you turn off the stupid eye candy behind all the menus in Menu Master 1.4.3b3 (paste this into Terminal): defaults write com.unsanity.menumaster StopSillyEffect -bool YES I got this reply from Unsanity support today. They asked me not to tell anyone about this, which confirms that this childish prank was done on purpose, and quite frankly, they can go f*ck themselves. Some people have work to do and don't have time for this bullsh*t.
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| Aug 21 2008 |
STORMCHILD Thanks to the new garbage added to every single menu in my system (on *purpose* no less), I've now had to completely disable Menu Master (as there's no way to turn that crap off). As a result, I am now giving it the rating it deserves, and issuing the following warning to anyone who uses this: DO NOT INSTALL MENU MASTER 1.4.3b3. It puts OpenGL/CoreAnimation scenes in EVERY menu and you CAN'T TURN IT OFF. And to top it all off, THERE IS NO WAY TO REVERT TO THE PREVIOUS VERSION. If anyone from Unsanity is reading this: I had respect for you guys until you pulled this crap. This is an important system add-on that I rely on to provide many shortcuts that cannot be configured with the basic Keyboard Shortcuts in System Preferences. I've now had to disable Menu Master completely -- losing all of my custom shortcuts -- just to get rid of this nonsense. What the hell is wrong with you people?
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| Aug 21 2008 |
STORMCHILD Okay, so the OpenGL and Core Animation views behind all the menus are cool, but how the hell do I turn them off? I'm trying to work here; I expected the new Menu Master beta release was just a routine update to comply with changes in the final version of APE 2.5, but now I have to waste a bunch of time trying to figure out how to turn off this silly eye candy. We're not talking about a silly little add-on I can just turn off; this is a silly feature that affects something I use and rely on every day, wasting enormous amounts of memory and CPU cycles, with no apparent way to disable it. This is a completely brain-dead, irresponsible thing to do as a developer. Idiots.
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| Jul 24 2008 |
PROFINITE For those who believe that Unsanity does not respond to inquiries, I suggest that you read the announcement in the yellow box at the top of their blog page that has existed for months now: http://www.unsanity.org/archives/betas/enthusiastic_trepidation.php I own FontCard, FruitMenu, Menu Master, and WindowShade. All of their betas have worked well with Leopard on multiple Mac's.
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| Feb 26 2008 |
MARK_CAIRNS I'm losing Menu Shortcut all the time with new Pasteboard XT7.01 Xtension paired with Quark 7.31
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| Feb 26 2008 |
GRYPHONENT Nice to see Unsanity return to life... but is there any app that doesn't crash under Leopard with the new haxies installed?
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| Feb 5 2007 |
EASER If you're willing to go a few extra steps, you can use Butler (free) in conjunction with MenuMaster to create 1-key modifcations. Create your modifications in a program with MenuMaster, then go into Butler and modify those key combos to work with single key commands of your choosing. For instance, I used MenuMaster to change a command to Command-F1. I then went into Butler and told it to make the ' keystroke the equivalent of Command-F1. Now, I can use either Command-F1 or the ' key to achieve the same effect. Yes, it's a few extra steps, but once it's done, you have what you want. I don't think Apple provides the level of flexibility in modifying key commands that MenuMaster does. I've had zero problems with MenuMaster. It's been delightful to customize my programs as I wish them to work.
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| Feb 3 2007 |
ANDYCHRIST You already can change menu key commands in OS X, just go to System Preferences/Keyboard & Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts. Further, you don't have to use key combos, you can change commands to single keys. Wish Menu Master offered a single key option, because honestly MM is a lot easier to use than Apple's preference pane, which makes you type in each Menu command for every application you add and is also kind of unstable.
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| Feb 3 2007 |
MACLOVER1.1 For a while I was weary of Unsanity's haxies... but then a couple of them in particular are soooooooooo useful(namely this one and FontCard for me) that every once in a while I would re-install them hopring it would work fine and by now I have been using them for many months... never had any trouble I could attribute to them anymore... and like it is said below... this could/should be included in the OS.. that is how useful this is !!!! Whip those menus into shape Masta' ! Whip'em good LoL PS: Unlike a couple of posts below I never lost a shortcut. At least not that I noticed ;-)
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| Aug 12 2006 |
SIDETRACKED Simple as pie. Generally very effective, thought it seems to occasionally (rarely) lose a shortcut. But then it's no big deal to re-do. The new menu accelerator is very handy.
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| Jun 1 2006 |
OWL I love this software and was missing it in Intel land. Apple does a horrible job supporting keyboard usage and MM makes it all right with a perfect interface. Just wonderful... it should be a part of OS X.
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| Jul 8 2004 |
MARC GRAY Superb
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| Feb 3 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Doesn't hold its settings after logging out. If I set File->New Folder in the Finder to cmd-N, Menu Master adds the shortcut but loses it if I log out.
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| Jul 7 2004 |
MARE I think Apple disabled the resetting of Cmd-N. It used to work in 10.3 but not anymore. :-( We have to adapt to this new stupid shortcut I'm afraid. I never open new Finder windows with a keyboard shortcut, I use DragThing to go to the folder I want to go to.
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| Jul 10 2004 |
THEL It works fine with combos other than command+n, though. For most Finder windows, I happen to prefer ol' fashioned list view with no side nor foolbar, so I set MM to substitute.... command+F9 for shift+command+n (new folder), command+F10 for command+o (open), command+F11 for command+2 (view as list), command+F12 for option+command+t (show/hide toolbar) ....now whenever I want to create a new folder with my preferred view, I can just hit command+F9-F10-F11-F12 in quick succession, and there 'tis in less'n a second. (I also have command+F13 & command+F14 set to Empty Trash & Secure Empty Trash.) Handy dandy. (-:
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| Jan 30 2004 |
FRANKS Easy to use, works as stated, and worth every penny.
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| Jan 28 2004 |
MARE I used MenuMaster everyday to mark messages as Junk in Eudora. Panther's new keyboard shortcuts feature didn't work because Eudora also has two menu items named Junk and the geature gets confused. And since MM didn't work in Panther I was really deprived. But now I'm back in business. MM is also very useful to temporarily change a 3 modifier command to something mere mortals can remember and press. For 10 bucks you can't go wrong.
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| Jan 28 2004 |
DANA SUTTON To give one example of how useful this can be, Dreamweaver lets you record macros and store them as Menu commands. But it doesn't let you assign keyboard shortcuts to the commands you create. So MM is a real godsend to those of use who use Dreamweaver as our bread-and-butter workhorse. Setting Setting F-keys is an entirely different issue: Apple's failure to provide F-key feature in OS X, such as OS 9 has, MM addresses the issue of software designers failing to provide adequate keyboard shortcuts in their products. These are two very different problems. Regarding F-keys, the first week I upgraded to OS-X I got a copy of Keyboard Maestro, have used it ever since. MM and Fruit Menu are the two most indispensible Haxies of them all.
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| Jan 28 2004 |
PANTHER COMP. Ahhhhhhh...back in business.
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| Sep 20 2003 |
DON Gave it a try....will not latch onto Adobe PhotoShop menues. Too bad really, it is straight foreward and easy to use.
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| Aug 24 2003 |
APPLESIN To Don Kotelko: It's probably not to much help, since it won't get you your money back, but with Key Xing U can configure the F-keys to launch apps.
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| May 1 2003 |
DON KOTELKO Unfortunately, they don't tell you that Menu Master cannot use function keys for shortcuts, which is why i bought it. Remember the good old days when F1=undo, F2 =cut, F3=copy, F4=paste? These now work in very few App's. And Unsanity did not answer my email when i asked if they could add the function keys. Boo...
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| Apr 23 2003 |
MAC 1984 Again...Unsanity bags the prize with quick response to previous release concerns.
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| Apr 19 2003 |
ANONYMOUS A great idea but it doesn't really work yet. About half the time, the menu shortcuts disappear when the program is exited. This appears to be completely unpredictable.
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| Apr 9 2003 |
ACRAPPA It's really easy to use, but it doesn't work with Carbon apps and is a bit pricey for what it does. It's good software though.
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| Apr 8 2003 |
MAC 1984 Unsanity brings back to the MAC that which has been lost in the MAC community for years...a culture of creative and talented developers. Menu Master is one of many of their products that showcases just how good the MAC can be.
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| May 3 2004 |
ANONYMOUS what's a MAC?
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| May 3 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Q: What's a MAC address? A: A MAC (Media Access Control) address is the unique hardware address of a network device such as an Ethernet card or a Wireless card. So, a MAC is a Media Access Control address. A computer made by Apple is a Macintosh, or a Mac. Simple... heh heh
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