Sure enough, when I installed the upcoming new version of the Contacts plug-in-which should be released soon-the problem went away.) I also wish that MenuStrip items provided “tooltip” information boxes that would explain what each item does the various “action” items that you can create often look similar, so it would be helpful if you could figure out what each button does by holding the mouse pointer over it. (MacPowerUser told me this is a rare issue with some users’ Address Books that’s fixed in an upcoming version of the Contacts plug-in. So what don’t I like about MenuStrip? For one thing, I did experience a bug: MenuStrip would crash on launch whenever the current Contacts plug-in was installed. And if you drag a group of applications into the settings dialog, you create an “Application Workgroup” clicking this item in MenuStrip launches all of the included applications simultaneously. And I like that if your menu bar is getting crowded, as mine is, MenuStrip lets you move these items out of the menu bar while still leaving them accessible.)įinally, you can also drag applications, files, and folders directly into MenuStrip’s settings dialog to add those items to the strip adding a folder even gives you a hierarchical menu of the folder’s contents. But OS X’s clock menu item doesn’t provide a drop-down calendar or an alarm. (It’s true that the functionality of some of the available MenuStrip items is already provided by OS X for example, the volume item, eject item, and clock are similar to OS X menu extras. Separators are also available to organize your MenuStrip display. You can activate as many of each MenuStrip item as you need-for example, you can have multiple file/folder menus-and each is configured using the preferences dialog. But you can create your own-even ones that perform multiple actions with a single click. Three are configured by default: quit the current application, hide all applications, and show all applications. Action Buttons, which can be configured to hide, show, launch, quit, or switch to applications or to open particular files or launch particular AppleScripts.an item for toggling single-application mode, which hides all but the current application.an Application Switcher module that can take the place of those utilities I mentioned in my column a couple weeks ago.a hierarchical folder/file menu for quick access to files.a Quick Launcher for launching applications and opening documents by typing their names (similar to, though much more basic than,.a clock with a built-in pop-up calendar display and alarm clock.Wherever you place it, MenuStrip offers a number of built-in modules:
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