Re: NSTextfield focus in contextual menu
Re: NSTextfield focus in contextual menu
- Subject: Re: NSTextfield focus in contextual menu
- From: Tamas Nagy <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:56:30 +0100
Thanks for the info and the tips Kyle!
Tamas
On Jan 17, 2013, at 8:54 PM, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Tamas Nagy wrote:
>> Hi List,
>>
>> I have an application (10.6>) where are have a contextual menu with an
>> NSTextfield. What I'm trying is when I displaying the menu with [NSMenu
>> popupContextual…] making the NSTextfield focused, but without luck.
>>
>> I tried setting [mytextfield becomeFirstResponder] and [mytestfield
>> selectText:nil] before the popup method called, but it not works - I'm
>> not sure this is technology even possible.
>
> Sadly, views-in-menus is a generally broken technology. It's good for
> drawing custom content, but that's about it.
>
> If you want to do this, you'll probably want to build a custom
> NSMenu-lookalike. This is how Spotlight is implemented, for example.
>
> Alternatively, you may be able to subclass -[NSApplication sendEvent:]
> and feed the right data to the text field on your menu. I've heard
> rumblings that this is how Xcode implements its typeahead searching in
> menus.
>
> --Kyle Sluder
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