Achievable by rolling your own dialog and trapping keystrokes. If the field is empty, then set the text of the field to the advisory text. If the field is the advisory text and the selectedText is not empty, then set the text of the field to empty.
Hugh Senior FLCo ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:02:09 +0200 From: Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com> To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Can I put advisory text in an 'ask' dialog? Message-ID: <cddabb42-d169-489d-87bc-161563cf9...@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sometimes one sees apps (on different platforms) where the user is invited to type something into a field, and the field is pre-filled with a text which disappears the moment the user starts typing - the initial text says stuff like 'type your name here'. This type of text is not preselected (apparently) - so it must be a special type of text, but I don't know how to make it appear. Specifically, in LC's iOS implementation, the 'ask' dialog scripting looks like this: ask [ question | password ] prompt [ with initialAnswer ] [ titled title ] so the question resolves to: how do I make the initialAnswer text a 'ghost' text such as I have described, or is it impossible? Graham _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
