Re: NSSearchField with menu and cancel button
Re: NSSearchField with menu and cancel button
- Subject: Re: NSSearchField with menu and cancel button
- From: Steve Palmer <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:54:00 +0000
Wow, thanks. That did the trick! :-)
- Steve
On Feb 12, 2004, at 10:50 AM, Jeremy Dronfield wrote:
On 11 Feb 2004, at 6:47 pm, Steve Palmer wrote:
From IB, I can add a SearchField to a view but that gets me a plain
NSSearchField with no menu or cancel button. From looking in the
documentation, it seems that I need to support an NSSearchFieldCell
object but IB does not provide a palette for this that I can see and
the documentation is somewhat unclear. So the question is - how do I
add a NSSearchFieldCell to a view from IB?
Don't worry about the cell. The menu can be added programmatically or
(my preference) in IB. In IB, create a menu (by dragging a menu off
the palette into your nib window). Connect your search field's
searchMenuTemplate outlet to the menu. Then, to have your menu
remember recent searches, add three items to the menu, with the
following titles and tags:
"Recent Searches:", tag 1000
"Recents", tag 1001
"Clear Recent Searches", tag 1002
That's all. The API will handle the rest for you automagically. The
API will also handle the cancel button (it appears as soon as some
text is typed into the search field).
Hope this helps.
-Jeremy
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