On 11/4/16, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> The TextHint implementation should be completely rewritten. It shouldn't > use the text property but paint the TextHint onto the control by itself. > Windows can do that and Qt/Gtk2 should be able to do it as well (IIRC - > I talked about it with zeljko in Lazarus ML). For that some new virtual > paint method (PaintAfterInterface) should be introduced - that would > call the widgetset dependent PaintAfterInterface method. The Windows API provides a nice interface to set TextHint (and the possibility to display it if control has focus, but Text is empty). At the time I implemented it, I saw no API in GTK/QT for a TextHint-like feature. Unfortunately TCustomEdit does not have a Canvas ;-) And I was unable to find a suitable way to paint over the control in a reliable way. Not messing around with RealSetText/RealGetText would of course be much more disirable. Bart -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
