Hi Graham, You can't do exactly what you want with the ask dialog, but the default text is select disappears as soon as the user starts typing. In msot cases, that should do the job.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Get the extIco2Png external for LiveCode here http://qery.us/1w6 On 10 apr 2012, at 19:02, Graham Samuel wrote: > 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
