I have an application, which open popover with NSTextField. The text field is not editable. Behavior for text field is set to Editable. I still can
NSTextField
Editable
If anyone is still looking for an answer to this, I am working in Swift.
At the time where you wish the field to allow text entry, I have used myTextField.becomeFirstReponder()
myTextField.becomeFirstReponder()
To opt out; just use myTextField.resignFirstResponder()
myTextField.resignFirstResponder()