How to Make a search field and search results in your cocoa apps like spotlight?

Any ide开发者_JS百科as? Thans very much!

If you're looking to search through your own data, you may be thinking about the NSSearchField control. Here is a link to the "Introduction to Search Fields Guide" in the Apple documentation; it should put you on the right track.

Why don't you just integrate with Spotlight instead of creating some sort of alternative?

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/MetadataIntro/MetadataIntro.html

If you're actually trying to search for other files, you can use Spotlight for that as well:

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/SpotlightQuery/SpotlightQuery.html