Use the delegate method control:textShouldBeginEditing: to set the placeholder string to nil when editing begins, and control:textShouldEndEditing: to restore the placeholder if the text field is empty?
On Feb 29, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Geoff Beier wrote: > I've opened radar #10954811 about the appearance of placeholder text > in a multi-line NSTextField. If the placeholder is sufficiently long, > when a user clicks the field and starts typing, only the first line of > placeholder text gets cleared until the edit is finished. > > I ran across this while picking up a project that I hadn't worked on > since before the Lion upgrade. This would seem to be new behavior in > Lion. > > Here is a trivial sample project that demonstrates the problem: > https://downloads.redhoundsoftware.com/listshare/PlaceholderTest.zip > > Does anyone know a way to work around this? > > Thanks for any insight. > > Regards, > > Geoff > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rosscarterdev%40me.com > > This email sent to rosscarter...@me.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
