[haiku-development] Re: Patch for BTextControl to add the EmptyHint functionality
- From: Barrett <barrett666@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:09:52 +0200
Hello,
> As for your implementation, I think you have chosen a bad approach.
> You should not use SetText, nor do you need the fEmptyHintShow
> instance variable.
I had this suspect : )
> Also I like the implementation of the HTML5 placeholder which actually
> does not disappear until you have typed something, instead of when the
> input gets focused.
From the beauty perspective i don't like the HTML5 implementation, but i
agree because when someone focus a window where the textcontrol is already
the focus view he can still read the placeholder.
> That actually makes it easier to implement,
> because basically you don't worry about the focus, just whether there
> is any text.
I'm going to rewrite the patch...thanks a lot for suggestions.
Regards
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