Not being able to edit NSTextField on NSPopover even though Editable behavior is set

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Not sure if you still need the answer, but there may be some others still looking. I found a solution on apple developer forums. Quoting the original author:

The main problem is the way keyboard events works. Although the NSTextField (and all its superviews) receives keyboard events, it doesn’t make any action. That happens because the view where the popover is atached, is in a window which can’t become a key window. You can’t access that window in any way, at least I couldn’t. So the solution is override the method canBecomeKeyWindow for every NSWindow in our application using a category.

NSWindow+canBecomeKeyWindow.h
@interface NSWindow (canBecomeKeyWindow)

@end

NSWindow+canBecomeKeyWindow.m
@implementation NSWindow (canBecomeKeyWindow)

//This is to fix a bug with 10.7 where an NSPopover with a text field cannot be edited if its parent window won't become key
//The pragma statements disable the corresponding warning for overriding an already-implemented method
#pragma clang diagnostic push
#pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wobjc-protocol-method-implementation"
- (BOOL)canBecomeKeyWindow
{
    return YES;
}
#pragma clang diagnostic pop

@end

That makes the popover fully resposive. If you need another window which must respond NO to canBecomeKeyWindow, you can always make a subclass.

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