text/search field in menu?

Scripting Forums AppleScriptObjC and Xcode
#1

How do I get a text field or a search field within a menu like OS X’s help menu (no need for the special styling)? I don’t think I’ve seen this done anywhere.

#2

I’m pretty sure that what you see in the help menu is actually a window made to look like a menu.

#3

Ok, that would make sense. How would I get a window into a menu item?

Thanks Shane!

EDIT: So I’ve got my custom view, complete with text field. Just need to link it to the menu somehow?

#4

If you look in the NSMenu docs at the companion guide, “Application Menu and Pop-up List Programming Topics”, you will see “Views in Menu Items” as the last topic. I translated the sample code they had there to ASOC, whhich gives you this:

script MenuViewsAppDelegate
	property parent : class "NSObject"
	property custView : missing value --This is my custom view
	
	on applicationWillFinishLaunching_(aNotification)
		set menuBarItem to current application's NSMenuItem's alloc()'s initWithTitle_action_keyEquivalent_("Custom", "menuBarAction:", "")
		set newMenu to current application's NSMenu's alloc()'s initWithTitle_("Custom")
		menuBarItem's setSubmenu_(newMenu)
		current application's NSApp's mainMenu()'s insertItem_atIndex_(menuBarItem, 3)
		set newItem to current application's NSMenuItem's alloc()'s initWithTitle_action_keyEquivalent_("Custom Item 1", "menuItem1Action:", "")
		newItem's setView_(custView) --Here is where you add your view
		newItem's setTarget_(me)
		newMenu's addItem_(newItem)
	end applicationWillFinishLaunching_
    
end script

Ric

#5

Perfect. Thank you so much. Now that I see how to implement it, I see how how it all comes together. Thanks again!