Had to override acceptsFirstMouse in NSDatePicker not NSMenuItem. Works, still 
doesn’t highlight the fields when selected but works. Guess I’ll figure it out.

Would like to know what is different when run directly and when run from Xcode 
though

> On Sep 24, 2019, at 1:23 PM, Mark Wade via Cocoa-dev 
> <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I’m at a loss here.  I’ve created a statusbar item, using Swift 5, whose 
> first menu item is a textwithstepper NSDatePicker which I created by setting 
> the menu item’s view. This all works fine when run from within XCode.  
> Running the app directly still works, however I can’t select the fields to 
> change with the stepper, why it works in Xcode and not without I don’t know. 
> So, I’m thinking I have to implement acceptsFirstMouse(for event:) to return 
> true, I think.
> 
> I’ve subclassed NSMenuItem and overridden acceptsFirstMouse( for event:) but 
> then how do I add the NSDatePicker? I can’t override the NSMenuItem view 
> variable, if I set the view to my subclass and then set the view to the 
> datepicker, it’s not my subclass anymore. I’ve been over and over this and 
> I’m just not getting it.
> 
> A clue, a pointer, an example, anything would be appreciated.
> 
> — Mark


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