Re: Disabled, auto-disappearing placeholder in search field like Safari, Console.app

2009-02-24 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2009 Feb 24, at 03:57, Andrew Farmer wrote: This is placeholder text. You can set it with the "placeholder" field on text input fields, or programatically using the setPlaceholderString on a NSTextFieldCell. Thank you, Andrew. Yes, that gives the behavior that I want. And it takes les

Re: Disabled, auto-disappearing placeholder in search field like Safari, Console.app

2009-02-24 Thread Andrew Farmer
On 23 Feb 09, at 20:52, Jerry Krinock wrote: When I bind to an NSSearchField with option key=value pair NSNullPlaceholderBindingOption="Search names", indeed "Search names" is displayed in the search field whenever the bound keyPath is nil. But it appears as normal black text which the user

Disabled, auto-disappearing placeholder in search field like Safari, Console.app

2009-02-23 Thread Jerry Krinock
When I bind to an NSSearchField with option key=value pair NSNullPlaceholderBindingOption="Search names", indeed "Search names" is displayed in the search field whenever the bound keyPath is nil. But it appears as normal black text which the user must overtype. In contrast, the "Google" se