Hello, I know GTK 3.2+ has a nice gtk_entry_set_placeholder_text() method, but I'm wondering if there is some clever method to do something similar with GTK2, I've not found anything googling around, but placeholder texts are a so common interface concept today that I doubt that someone has not yet "emulated" it in gtk2...
If no one has already done it, I think this could work: - initialize the widget with placeholder text - set a user data on the widget telling the text is placeholder - set the color of the foreground text for this text widget to gray - add a focus in event and a on change event on the widget - if focus in and user data == placeholder, erase the text, save it in another user data, remove the custom style from the gtkentry - if on changed and result text empty reload the placeholder text and switch the style - if on changed and previous text was empty clear the placeholder text and switch the style I wonder if this can work... I can also build a subclass string with this behaviour since I need this in a few different places :( -- *Bye,* * Gabry* _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
