Thanks. That got me pointed in the right direction. Setting the placeholder string to nil in control:textShouldBeginEditing clears the stray second line away nicely. Setting it back in control:textShouldEndEditing appears to prevent editing from actually ending. Setting it back in the control's action works, though.
I do now see the reverse problem when the user clears the text; the first line of the old placeholder string appears even after it's been set to nil. I'm much less concerned about this, though, because while populating this field is something a user will do every time they create a new document in this application, clearing it should be comparatively rare. Thanks again for your help. Regards, Geoff On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Ross Carter <rosscarter...@me.com> wrote: > 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
