How to deal with first responder and a NSPopover

Question

I’m trying to replicate the behaviour of the search field in iTunes, for looking up stock symbols and names. Specifically, as you start typing in the search field a popover app

Answer 1

In the meantime I found an easy fix. Subclass your text view and implement - (BOOL)canBecomeKeyView. Always return NO there. It will be called only once when the popover is shown. You can work with the text view any time still.