[absmiths]

I have an NSMenu set as the searchMenuTemplate on my NSSearchField, and when it opens it always shows all entries disabled. The recent searches and clear searches stuff works fine, just not any of my menu items for changing the search criteria. I even went so far as to manually enable them at runtime, but that gets ignored as well. Has anyone else seen this? Is there something major I am missing?

[absmiths]

Now I have noticed that my menu items get enabled once I press return in the search field.

. . . sometimes.

[absmiths]

I eventually found a solution to this on the Omni mailing lists. This is a known bug and the only solution is to call:

Code:
[[searchField cell] setSearchMenuTemplate: [[searchField cell] getSearchMenuTemplate]];

Or, in Java,

Code:
searchField.cell().setSearchMenuTemplate(searchField.cell().getSearchMenuTemplate());

Basically a silly Apple bug. This forum sure is slow sometimes.