Will Menu Bar Search support dealing with multi-language apps?

For example:
My system language is Chinese, and I can't search "help" instead of Chinese word “帮助” to get the target.

Some apps do have multi-language support, it will be even nicer for Menu-Bar-Search support this feature too.

Alfred shows is "Is accessibility enabled for alfred?" despite it being enabled, when running the workflow

Hi @BenziAhamed
I love this extension. And super thankful you've took time to create it
Would you be interested in porting it to Raycast?
I find it much more functional than Alfred as it has much more extensions than Alfred. So, I'm switching to Raycast and keeping Alfred just to run menu bar search from time to time.
I've done some initial testing and ./menu binary works just fine with Raycast (when running via bash script) so I belive only surrounding configuration/wrapper for Raycast extension to be added & published to store

It should be app: "Safari" but app: "com.apple.Safari". And also you should say that the settings are case-sensitive.

Has this workflow been abandoned?

Hi thanks for this, Ive been using it daily for some time. I do animation and use some apps which have large numbers of menu entries. Sadly menu bar search fails on many of these items as a result of the limitation you mention in the Airmail bug post:

"there is a limit of 40 sub-menu items it will display (mainly done for speed)."

Would it be possible to change this limitation for instances where the workflow fails to cover all menu items?

With the release of macOS Catalina, 32-bit app support is no longer available, which means many of your older apps will no longer work if they haven't been updated to 64-bit.

This workflow works excellent except some items of obsidian. When I open obsidian and use menu-bar-search in alfred, the items of "format"(for example bold font) don't work. But obsidian operating normally. And other items of "window"(for example minimize window) in menu-bar-search work well. The following mov is an example:

The 1.7 version is not working at my intel mac, so I had to install the 1.6 version.
But the 1.6 version is not working at my m1.

@BenziAhamed have you considered including the source like ctwise does in his repository? That way others could submit improvements, review the code, and/or further fork the project.

Hello
menu executable does not support ARM architecture.

This workflow doesn't seem to work in Catalina. I get an error that reads, "'Menu' can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software. This software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information."

Hey, I can't understand why I am not getting any results? I created a hotkey, can run the workflow, but no matter what I type after returns nothing. I tried making the m command optional and required, tried the ms command as well, no results.

Could you please help me figure out what the problem is? Thank you!

Running this on a mac, intel processor, MacOS Big Sur 11.5.2.

Given this list of services:

Running m qr in Alfred finds and allows me to run the "Generate QR Code" service. However, when I do that, Menu-Bar-Search actually runs the "Compare Text in Kaleidoscope" service.

Oddly, if I try running m qr again, it runs the QR code service as expected.

This only seems to affect services; other menu items always work as expected.

Running Menu-Bar-Search 1.7, Alfred 4,6 and macOS 12.0.1.

After installing the workflow and trying to use it, I get this error:

v1.6 of workflow
MacOS v10.15.5

Does this require a new version to fix?

Let's say there are two types of apps:

• One with a huge a complicated menu, traversing of which on every launch would show a visible lag. It might be better to always use the cached version (with maybe manual reset on rare app updates) to get no lag (even though you might miss some dynamic menu items)
• One with a small menu, where the lag is smaller than typing the menu item. In this case there is no point in using cache since it's imperceptible

Would it be possible to add a config that for some selected apps in the first category would allow setting custom cache option (always use if exists) with custom menu/sub-menu depth (you'd basically set each to ∞ since it's only used once per app and then cached)?
(maybe cache could be auto-invalidated when app version changes, but that might be an unnecessary overcomplication)

Another potential improvement to get the best of both worlds (caching and dynamic items): is it possible to parse the whole menu only once, but also store specific paths that are dynamic and on each launch only update those paths while reading everything else from cache?

When I search for something on the browser menu, the results include history and bookmarks. Can you create a feature where I can disable some menus that I don't want to show up in the results?

Hope to hear from you soon
Thank you very much

Great workflow! I'm running AirMail mac v 3.6.71 and the menus are incomplete. Some of the menus are available (e.g. "About Airmail") but others aren't (e.g. anything in the Messages menu like "Get Mail" or "Forward"). Thanks!

Hello,

For those using macOS with a different language, it would be nice to filter menu results with a diacritic insensitive search.

When using RubyMine 2021.3.1 the "Find in Files" menu nor the "Reformat" options are not available in the json response. I have some work to do but would be willing to get the cache and dump once I have some time this week.

PS: I love this workflow. One of my favourites. Means I don't have to remember key shortcuts at all ;)

Hi,

At some point over the past few months I've noticed that not all menus load all the time. In PHPStorm, there is a main menu item titled "Close Project". It doesn't appear in the workflow anymore. If I manually reopen the File menu in PHPStorm, that seems to trigger something and then it appears in the workflow.

Also I used to be able to type "CP" for "Close Project", but now that no longer works. I can type "Close P" but not "CP. thx for the great work!

The workflow is capable of parsing the menu items in Vivaldi browser, and I can select a given command within Alfred's search bar, but then it has no effect

Since updating the workflow to v1.9+, Alfred 4.8 reports that the workflow is incompatible. Is there any way to make it work both with Alfred 4 and 5?

Hi, first off thank you for a most excellent workflow!!!!!

I wondered if you had thought of adding an update notifier or auto-update mechanism? I know of at least @vitorgalvao's OneUpdater: https://github.com/vitorgalvao/alfred-workflows

I am using Big Sur on Intel iMac, the workflow doesn't work anymore after I upgraded the version to 1.7, I had to revert to 1.6 now.

Is there a way to search through the menus of menu bar apps?

I would like to use the Workflow for quick filing my Mails. Apple Mail has menus for "Move to" and "Copy to". Is there a way to filter only stuff inside on of this menus? For example: "Move to > IMAP-Folder". The fuzzy search seems not to use menu paths. I already tried "move/IMAP-Folder" and "move > IMAP-Folder".

As per Alfred debugger:

[12:08:07.131] Logging Started... [12:08:20.620] Menu Bar Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'syn' [12:08:20.748] Menu Bar Search[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished [12:08:20.753] ERROR: Menu Bar Search[Script Filter] Code 5: Exited with error code but no message [12:08:21.283] Menu Bar Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument '' [12:08:21.402] Menu Bar Search[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished [12:08:21.410] ERROR: Menu Bar Search[Script Filter] Code 5: Exited with error code but no message [12:08:21.412] Menu Bar Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument 's' [12:08:21.518] Menu Bar Search[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished [12:08:21.524] ERROR: Menu Bar Search[Script Filter] Code 5: Exited with error code but no message [12:08:21.617] Menu Bar Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'sy' [12:08:21.671] Menu Bar Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'syn' [12:08:21.730] Menu Bar Search[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished [12:08:21.736] ERROR: Menu Bar Search[Script Filter] Code 5: Exited with error code but no message [12:08:21.834] Menu Bar Search[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished [12:08:21.844] ERROR: Menu Bar Search[Script Filter] Code 5: Exited with error code but no message

I have already toggled accessibility in alfred

Catalina will show a "Can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software" error with no way to run the included menu executable.

To circumvent this: Open Alfred preferences, right-click on the workflow, Open in Terminal, xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine menu – this will remove the quarantine attribute. Seems like it does work quite well on Catalina otherwise.