I have NSSearchFieldMBS on the window toolbar, placed like that:
var itemSearch as NSToolbarItemMBS
itemSearch=items(1)
mySearchField = new aSearchField(0, 0, 150, 20)
mySearchItem = itemSearch
itemSearch.view = mySearchField
I was using TextDidChange(fieldEditor as NSTextMBS, notification as NSNotificationMBS) event of mySearchField to handle the input:
winTasks.the_search_text=fieldEditor.Text
It worked perfectly. However, after updating the plugins to 25.3, the following error appears:
Type “Variant” has no member named “text”
How can I get the text from the NSSearchFieldMBS field (well, other than staying with the 25.2 version)? Using fieldEditor.StringValue gets me TypeMismatchException error.
OK, I am an idiot. Let this post remain as a monument to my stupidity. winTasks.the_search_text=me.StringValue is what I should use.
Making errors doesn’t make one stupid. We all make them. Regularly. It’s part of being a developer.
Times beyond counting I’ve been 100% sure something is broken and made a loud statement 
to a coworker or on this forum, only to realize I had misspelled something, or was using a different method than I was meant to, etc..
Mistakes are how we learn.
In my opinion doing anything (writing software, knitting a sweater, cooking a stew) which requires effort and experimentation is pretty damn impressive, so…
I say kudos to you, and all of us on this forum trying to make our little mental constructs “go” and “do”. 
Anthony
I’m extremely concerned that me in an event handler is somehow a Variant. I can’t fathom how that’s possible. Ping @Christian_Schmitz @Javier_Menendez teach me something new or tell me something’s broken – because this thread is unsettling.
Update: Figured it out. StringValue is a property of NSSearchFieldMBS’s super, NSControlMBS, it just happens to look like Variant.StringValue. Monkeybread Xojo plugin - NSSearchFieldMBS class
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