Request:support chinese type in search field

[Ti800]

im so lucky that find the incrediable app.❤

[Ti800]

it seems like a bug that cant activate typing mode correctly.
while opening the setting,its working again.

[p0deje]

I'm sorry, but what is the exact issue? Can you give me any steps to reproduce?

[Ti800]

1.Open app, if you are typing in alphabet,it would be ok even without typing mode.

2.i was forced to quit typing mode when typing space.

[p0deje]

I've started an attempt to make it work but got into a rabbit hole. Here are some observations on what I did and what are the problems:

1. Ideally, instead of manually appending the queryField.stringValue from Carbon event we receive, we'd just make queryField first responder and let the event be handled by AppKit. This would automatically support custom input popovers like Chinese or when one press e for few seconds.
2. It's not possible to make queryField first responder because menu bar apps are not activated when menu is opened. From AppKit perspective, such apps ignore all the events.
3. To make queryField first responder, we can force-activate the app when menu opens. When activation happens, the menu is immediately closed.
4. To workaround the issue, we can activate and popup menu using DispatchQueue.main.async. For some reason, it works.
5. Even with all these hacks, we have to activate a previous application after menu is closed. So far I haven't found a way to make it work with pasting functionality.

Some progress can be seen in 6d1f144, but I am no longer sure I can make it work reliably. I've already spent hours piling one hack over another 😞

[extimo]

I need this feature too, thanks so much @p0deje

[p0deje]

Released in 0.14.0