It does seem like this creates more trouble than it solves, so I  
approve your original idea instead.

Again, we need to communicate to the client that they will have to  
change their code to take advantage of this fix, though.

On 2009-10-14, at 08:18, Max Carlson wrote:

> Change 20091014-maxcarlson-K by [email protected] on 2009-10-14
> 02:25:33 PDT
>     in /Users/maxcarlson/openlaszlo/trunk-clean/lps/components
>     for http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk/lps/components
>
> Summary: Add hint attribute to edittext
>
> Bugs Fixed: LPP-8544 - DHTML/SWF10: <text> in front of <edittext>
> intercepts mouse clicks
>
> Technical Reviewer: ptw
> QA Reviewer: hminsky
>
> Details: Per Tucker's suggestion, this change adds a hint attriubte to
> edittext that if set, becomes the default text displayed while the
> field is empty.  There's a nasty wrinkle though: setting the text
> value of the field back to '' when it's focused seems to remove the
> focus sometimes in DHTML, at least in Firefox 3.5 OS X.  I tried
> forcing the selection but then the onblur event didn't reliably fire
> when clicking on the canvas:
>     //
>     this.setSelection(1,1);
>
> Overall, I think my original solution was simpler and also more
> flexible - at the cost of an extra view per field, it allows anything
> to be nester for edittext decoration...  Let me know what you think.
>
> Tests: Updated version of testcase from LPP-8544:
> <canvas>
>   <edittext id="baz" width="175" hint="Can't click here."/>
> </canvas>
>
>
> Files:
> M       lps/components/lz/edittext.lzx
>
> Changeset: 
> http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/patches/20091014-maxcarlson-K.tar
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