[NSTextView complete:] popup menu delay before hiding

• Jesse Grosjean [NSTextView complete:] popup menu delay before hiding Dec 03 2008, 21:17
  When I hit F5 to do complete: in text edit the menu of completions
  shows indefinitely, until I select an item or type a new letter. Same
  thing happens when I do F5 in Safari's search field. But if I do F5 in
  Xcodes's toolbar search field the popup of choices only shows for
  about a second, and then automatically hides.
  
  This leads to my problem. My application has the autohide behavior of
  the completions list, but I want it to have the stay visible
  indefinitely behavior. I assume that Text Edit has the default
  behavior, but I can't seem to find where in my code I've set things up
  so that the completions list hides after a few seconds.
  
  Does anyone know how to make sure that NSTextViews popup menu of
  completions stays visible until the user presses a new key?
  
  Thanks,
  Jesse
• Jesse Grosjean Re: [NSTextView complete:] popup menu delay before hiding Dec 05 2008, 16:28
  > When I hit F5 to do complete: in text edit the menu of completions
  > shows indefinitely, until I select an item or type a new letter. Same
  > thing happens when I do F5 in Safari's search field. But if I do F5 in
  > Xcodes's toolbar search field the popup of choices only shows for
  > about a second, and then automatically hides.
  

  
  Well rather proud of figuring this one out. Turns out that I wasn't
  being dumb and messing things up myself. Instead the NSTextView
  complete: popup menu behavior is different depending on if the app
  supports garbage collection or not. I'm assuming that there is a bug
  when garbage collection is on... the popup only shows for a few
  seconds until it gets collected. I'll report this to app, in the
  meantime does anyone know how to work around this problem?
  
  Jesse
• Ashley Clark Re: [NSTextView complete:] popup menu delay before hiding Dec 05 2008, 20:29
  On Dec 5, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Jesse Grosjean wrote:
  
  

  >> When I hit F5 to do complete: in text edit the menu of completions
  >> shows indefinitely, until I select an item or type a new letter. Same
  >> thing happens when I do F5 in Safari's search field. But if I do F5
  >> in
  >> Xcodes's toolbar search field the popup of choices only shows for
  >> about a second, and then automatically hides.
  >
  > Well rather proud of figuring this one out. Turns out that I wasn't
  > being dumb and messing things up myself. Instead the NSTextView
  > complete: popup menu behavior is different depending on if the app
  > supports garbage collection or not. I'm assuming that there is a bug
  > when garbage collection is on... the popup only shows for a few
  > seconds until it gets collected. I'll report this to app, in the
  > meantime does anyone know how to work around this problem?
  

  
  I unfortunately have no work around but I definitely want to hear
  about it when or if you find one.
  
  Ashley