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NSTextField inside NSStatusBar: focus and editable problems

My Cocoa Application is created using NSStatusBar with NSTextField inside and in the main window.
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I have two problems:

  • When I open Menubar, I can’t focus on SearchField (like Spotlight) and I can’t select content with something like [textField selectText: self]

  • Worst: if my MainWindow is at the front, it works without a problem. If my MainWindow is not on the front, but visible , I cannot edit the TextField . It can be selected with the mouse, but cannot be edited. Why is this?

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I tried all the hacks found, but I could not solve the problem.

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I also had this problem, so I completely recreated NSMenu using NSWindow . I called it JGMenuWindow , and you can find open source on GitHub here .

Here is an example of what he can do:

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