@vitor and team - thanks for getting the workflow up on the gallery! 🙂

Have a question on new versions: If I were to update my workflow to say `2.1` and create a new release on GitHub, what steps are needed so that the gallery picks up the change?

Sorry about the huge gap and delay in responding - I had some issues setting up my apple developer ID, but sorted that out finally!

Appreciate if you could test v2.0 pre-release here and see if the notarisation works:

https://github.com/BenziAhamed/Menu-Bar-Search/releases

cc @vitor @xilopaint

@vitor Hi! would you (or anyone else) be able to help and check if version 1.9 is suitable? I've updated it to use User Configs and tried to codesign it.

Let me try and update the workflow to use User Configuration and sign the binary as well.

• Looks like the source code for this is lost to time 🫤
• I hex edited the streaks binary and got it to work with Alfred 5. I changed `Alfred 3` to `Alfred 5` from the hex editor.
• An updated version (again, only works with Alfred 5) is available here. YMMV.

Its a workaround - but try this on Catalina: https://github.com/BenziAhamed/Menu-Bar-Search/issues/4

23 hours ago, willbraden said:

Is there a working link for this somewhere?

Not at the moment. This workflow is no longer maintained / available. (I might have another go at a enhanced version, later, if time permits...)

v1.6 - per app configuration

You can now specify custom configuration settings to fine tune menu listings for at an app level. Type ms into Alfred to get started.

Here's the settings.txt config I use:

# always show disabled menu items
appFilters {
  app: "BibDesk"
  showDisabledMenuItems: true
}

# for Safari, ignore the History and Bookmarks
# menus since loading it take a lot of time
appFilters {
    app: "Safari"
    ignoreMenuPaths {
        path: "History"
    }
    ignoreMenuPaths {
        path: "Bookmarks"
    }
}

# For Finder alone, show the Apple menu entries,
# and ignore any recent entries listed in the 
# Apple > Recent Items menu
appFilters {
    app: "Finder"
    showAppleMenu: true
    ignoreMenuPaths {
        path: "Apple"
        path: "Recent Items"
    }
}

On 4/28/2017 at 0:18 PM, alwaysaugust said:

Alfred Text Service has Accesibility rights set but I get this when I try to trigger this workflow http://snpy.in/CpVxLW any suggestions?

Alfred itself needs to have accessibility permissions.

@cands 

BibDesk (programatically) reports all menus items under "Copy As..." to be inactive and disabled always. This is the reason why menu search is not able to pick up the sub menu items.

One workaround possible to to display all menu items (enabled or not) - but this means that if a menu item is truly disabled, actioning that from Alfred will not have any effect, and you will not be able to know beforehand if the item is indeed disabled or not. The workflow will blindly list all available menu item entries.

If you download and update the workflow to version 1.5.4, I have included some environment variables to control the default menu listing. In your case, because of BibDesk, you may want to set the value of "-show-disabled" to true. 

Note that this will affect all menus across all apps. I'll attempt to come up with a better solution, but not very hopeful at the moment.

1 hour ago, cands said:

I also experienced one case where not all menu items were found, using the app BibDesk. The old menu bar search workflow, as part of the workflow "Key Clue" finds some menu items that are not shown by this new workflow (showing "No menu items"), e.g. the items that are subcommands to the "Copy As" item. Sorry but I did not have time to go through steps B-D outlined above (I have the latest version so step E is done) now, but wanted to quickly inform you about this.

@cands

Thanks for reporting this. I have downloaded BibDesk (Version 1.6.10 (4171)) and can reproduce the issue with the Copy As... menu.

I'll try to see if I can figure out why this is happening.

@dunkaroo 

ALSO

You need to have text selected in the app for the Copy to show up / and something pasteable in the clipboard for Paste to appear.

This is because the menu search only searches and displays actionable menu items. You cannot copy if nothing is selected.

@dunkaroo That's a bit odd. 

edit - see my post after this one as well

Troubleshooting

A - What gets displayed when you type in "m copy" into Alfred? Is it 'No menu items'?

B - Can you access Alfred's cache folder? In my case it is 

/Users/benzi/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-3/Workflow Data/com.folded-paper.menu-bar-search/

You will need to change that path with your username. In the cache folder, two files will be created for every app once you trigger Menu Search for that app. For example, for TextEdit, it would be: 

1. com.apple.TextEdit.items.txt
2. com.apple.TextEdit.txt

Can you check if these files get created and if so share me the contents of these two text files? For this step, the Script Filter must have the default settings.

C - If you can edit the workflow, change the Script Filter command to the following, one option at a time and see if it makes any difference:

# option 1
./menu -query "{query}"

# option 2
./menu -async -query "{query}"

D - Delete all files from your cache folder and try again

E - Try downloading the latest version (see below) and see if it makes any difference.

Ignoring Apple menu items

If you re-download and install v1.4.4, I have included a new option to ignore the Apple menu items. You need to edit your workflow manually include this setting as it is not switched on by default. Open up the Script Filter, and change:

./menu -async -cache 10 -query "{query}"

to

./menu -async -cache 10 -no-apple-menu -query "{query}"

This should prevent apple menu items from showing up.

3 hours ago, nhat said:

Thanks for the excellent workflow. You made it really snappy and a joy to use

You're welcome. Although you might want to re-download because I've tried to make it even more snappier

v1.4 - Caching

Menu results are cached for a very short duration, resulting in even faster filtering of menu items.

Check it out!

v1.2 - Fully native menu clicking, removed AppleScript based solution

Well, I removed the AppleScript part of the workflow that automates the actual menu clicking, and replaced it with native code. (This is slightly faster, but not perceptibly so.)

Also, @targumanu's suggestion to terminate previous script for the run behaviour is now the default setting.

v1.1.0 - Added Fuzzy Text Matching for Menus

If you have a menu item New Tab, then typing m nt in Alfred will match New Tab, since n and t matches the first letters of the menu text.

7 hours ago, derBingle said:

@Benzi The link is still broken for me. Getting a 404 from Dropbox.

Update link (again). It should work now. 

Download

4 hours ago, raguay.customct said:

Thanks. It is working now. What framework are you using for the automation. I love that it is getting services too!

Nothing out of the ordinary - just the default AX... accessibility stuff from Apple.  

PS: The code is included in the workflow (also Github); mostly a port of @ctwise's objC code into Swift.

8 hours ago, Lecter said:

Great workflow! And I appreciate the rename. By the way, it might be helpful to increment the version number each time you update it.

Duly noted. Wil do.

11 hours ago, raguay.customct said:

You need to recompile using static linking. It's requiring a dynalib that I don't have:

 

Code 6: dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/libswiftAppKit.dylib

  Referenced from: /Users/raguay/Dropbox (Personal)/Richard/rag/Alfred/Sync/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.85FE278A-FF20-4A2A-919E-8DE7DC7D1C62/./menu

  Reason: image not found

I updated the workflow - could you re-download and check if possible?

2 hours ago, raguay.customct said:

You need to recompile using static linking. It's requiring a dynalib that I don't have:

I have re-implemented ctwise's excellent implementation of the Menu Search workflow in Swift.

This version is ever so slightly faster (at least on my machine ) - YMMV.

Requires OSX 10.7+

↓ Download

Refer Github README page for up-to-date information.

Usage

Type m in Alfred to list menu bar items for front most application You can filter menu items by name, or do a fuzzy search.

E.g

• m new tab will match the menu item New Tab
• m cw will match the menu item Close Window

Setup

Note that Accessibility must be enabled for Alfred in order for this to work correctly.

For example, in macOS Sierra, this is configured using the Security and Privacy preference pane, under the Privacy tab with the Accessibility section selected. Alfred must be included in the list of apps allowed to control your computer. This step is required for the workflow to generate the list of menu items, and also click on a specific menu item. 

Here's a snapshot of what the preference pane might look like in macOS Sierra.

On 4/13/2017 at 2:39 AM, pavel said:

Download link is broken, can anyone reupload workflow?

 I have updated the download link. Can you try now?

Hi Benzi - would it be possible to amend this so that when you select the computer battery, you get all the info from your first battery workflow (cycle count , health etc)?

As a start, I have updated this workflow to display more information as is - so no need for the other workflow. I'll see what more I can add to this, meantime though go ahead and download the latest version and try it out.