Comments on: Receiving Enter & Arrow Key Presses From NSSearchField

By: Tuomas

Tuomas — Sun, 09 May 2010 08:12:07 +0000

Great. Converted this into AppleScript and it works perfectly in my ASObjC app.

By: carpii

carpii — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:47:00 +0000

Very useful, thanks.
As an experienced developer, but very new to Cocoa and everything Mac, I was struggling to find a way to handle enter key.. (since NSSearchField seems to fire its action whenever theres a matched word). This code did the job nicely

By: vijay swami

vijay swami — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:08:49 +0000

Thanks buddy. It was a great help. keep the nice work up!

By: Walter Johnson

Walter Johnson — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:20:24 +0000

As a follow-up to my previous comment, it’s easier to detect the enter-key event by making your controller the search field’s delegate and implementing controlTextDidEndEditing:. Pressing enter in a search field causes this notification to be sent. Granted, you won’t be able to intercept the other keys…

By: Walter Johnson

Walter Johnson — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:48:29 +0000

Thanks. This works great for detecting the enter key. However, it also screws up the search field’s ability to track recent searches. Anytime I press the down arrow to bring up my recent searches, no menu is displayed.