Displaying the Spotlight Search Window

Applications can provide users direct interaction with Spotlight by displaying the standard Spotlight search interface, shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Spotlight search window

The Carbon HISearchWindowShow function provides a simple interface to the Spotlight search window. The following code fragment demonstrates extracting a string value from an NSSearchField and displaying the search interface.

OSStatus resultCode=noErr;

resultCode=HISearchWindowShow((CFStringRef)[sender stringValue],kNilOptions);

if (resultCode != noErr) {

    // failed to open the panel

    // present an error to the user

The search window is presented using the default display settings that the user has configured in System Preferences.

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