What's the best way to work with mini-menus? (NOT the menu bar)

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@soundsgood

In QK, after clicking on the mini menu, I could specify the item to be selected by name. But so far, I don't see a similar action in KM. Have I overlooked it?

Hey @soundsgood,

Unfortunately Keyboard Maestro doesn't have a mechanism for directly dealing with pop-up menus – the user has to resort to AppleScript UI-Scripting to manage them.

@soundsgood

A familiar example, for most, would be the "From" mini menu, in a new Mail.app message, which allows you to select the address from which you'd like to send that message

In this example the way to manage is to create a shortcut in the System Prefs > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts > Mail.app > <Exact format of sub-menu item in pop-up>

I have 7 keyboard shortcut for directly selecting different addresses:

I also have a macro to pop-up the menu for type-select to pick up a few I don't bother to have keyboard shortcuts for:

Pop-up Menu ⇢ Open ⇢ Outgoing Message ⇢ FROM.kmmacros (6.2 KB)

-Chris