ABPeoplePickerView: setting focus on the search field

FROM : John Fox
DATE : Tue Apr 19 23:41:12 2005

Hello:

I've been using ABPeoplePickerView in a panel, and I'm trying to figure
out how to always have the cursor be active in the the search field
(i.e. that the search field receives the focus). This is the way the
people picker behaves in iChat. In my app however, after a user selects
a record and the panel is closed, the next time it's opened the focus
is no longer on the search field, but on the previously selected
record. The only way to force the cursor into the search field is to
use the tab key which is "non-obvious" to borrow a phrase. I've tried
called deselectAll: and that doesn't have any effect. Further, there
does not seem to be any public outlet for the search field in this
view. Is there some trick, hidden or otherwise, that I'm missing

Any help greatly appreciated.

John