[Gambas-user] Watermark on text box

[Tobias Boege]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Tobias Boege wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> > Am 10.02.2015 14:03, schrieb Yahoo:
> > > Hi Benoit,
> > >
> > > Do you think if it's possible to add feature in text box object like a text as a king of help displayed into the textbook in light grey for example when this one is empty. As soon something is entered into the textbook, this text could disappear.
> > >
> > > It could be very useful to help the user of a software to know what do enter in some fields
> > >
> > 
> > Or even simpler: set Background and Foreground colors appropriately and 
> > give the help text as default text for the Textbox. Then wait for the 
> > first letter to be typed or a mouse click into the textbox, delete the 
> > default text, set Background and Foreground to standard values and start 
> > with the typed text.
> > 
> 
> Forgive me but that sounds awfully hack-y.
> 

Sorry, what I quoted above isn't hack-y at all. That's basically what I
implemented in a dedicated class. What you first proposed, however, was
dirty :-)

Regards,
Tobi

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