OpenMenu X

thm251_textmedium Powerful Context Menu Builder

OpenMenu is a utility that allows you to freely customize your contextual menu. You can open documents, applications, AppleScripts, Services Menu Items, and URLs any time you want. OpenMenu also supports the file system browsing. You can browse the file system and open/move files or folders through a contextual menu.


UBマーク Universal Binary
Mac OS X 3.9 or later.

OpenMenuXPrefIcon.png Great Features of OpenMenu X
  • Light and clean. OpenMenu X does not use any hacks or undocumented APIs.
  • Executes the Service menu items from the context menu.
  • Supports the shortcut key for each menu item.
  • Supports the long-press of the mouse button to invoke a contextual menu.
  • Compatible with Cocoa applications. OpenMenu X can get the context information from both Carbon and Cocoa applications.
  • Also supports the status bar menu.
  • Compatible with the System Preferences.
  • Fully localized in
    JP.gif Japanese, GB.gif English, FR.gif French, DE.gifGerman and TW.gif Traditional Chinese.

Adding Applications to OpenMenu X.

If you add often-used tools to OpenMenu, you can open a selected file with the tool you have registered. For example, you can open files with a file tool such as File Buddy or StuffIt. Or you can open text files with your favorite editor. Or you can open HTML files with your favorite browser or HTML editor.


Adding AppleScripts to OpenMenu X.

You can also add compiled Applescripts, and perform any of those scripts on selected files or text. You can freely make any script so you could do almost anything you can think of. For example you could: search for selected text using Google, make Graphic Converter show a slideshow from files in a selected folder, change the image format of an image file, use an online dictionary to search for words you don't understand, or even use Web Services to translate words from English to Japanese! Over 80 helpful scripts are included in the product.


Adding Services Menu Items to OpenMenu X.

Services menu is not usually user-friendly because its menu items are too many and its items are in deep hierarchical locations.
You can register often-used services menu items to OpenMenu X so that you can execute them without a long mouse travel.


Adding Documents or URLs.

If you add often used documents, folders or URLs, then you can open them via a contextual menu with one action.


Adding/Arranging Items with Drag and Drop.

You can add menu items with drag and drop and freely define the hierarchical menus; applications, applescripts, documents, folders, etc can be classified and arranged with drag and drop.


Browsing the File System.

OpenMenu X supports the dynamic file browsing through a contextual menu. You can easily open files/folders that are stored in the deep hierarchical locations.


Moving Selected Files/Folders.

Selecting files/folders that you want to move in Finder, open OpenMenu X and choose the destination folder through dynamic file browsing. Then the files/folders will be moved to the destination folder .
You can dispatch the scattered files/folder on the desktop to the appropriate folders with this function.


Browsing Running Applications.

You can browse the running applications through OpenMenu X and switch the current application to the one you choose.


Status Bar Menu is also supported.

You can also execute the same functions from the status bar menu of OpenMenu X. The status bar menu is useful for certain applications, such as Firefox, that are incompatible with the contextual menu.


Assigning Shortcut Key for each menu Item.

You can assign a shortcut key (global hot key) for the menu item so that you can execute the function without invoking the contextual menu.


Invoking the Menu with the mouse long-pressing.

Even with a one-button mouse or a trackpad, you can invoke the contextual menus by pressing the mouse button for a second without using the control key.

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