Bug #5012: [3.3.6-rc2] PlaceholderText of WInPlaceEdit - Wt - Redmine

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[3.3.6-rc2] PlaceholderText of WInPlaceEdit

Added by Стойчо Стефанов Stoycho Stefanov almost 8 years ago. Updated almost 8 years ago.

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Closed

Priority:

High

Assignee:

Koen Deforche

Target version:

3.3.6

Start date:

06/30/2016

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Description

Hey,

until 3.3.5 the "emptyText" of a WInPlaceEdit wasn't rendered in the "lineEdit" widget and now it is (fear enough).

In my use case I use a XHTMLText format for the "textWidget" of the WInPlaceEdit, so that (only) the placeholder text is rendered "Italic":

    edit_ = new Wt::WInPlaceEdit();
    edit_->setButtonsEnabled(false);
    edit_->setPlaceholderText(WString("<i>not avaliable</i>"));
    edit_->textWidget()->setTextFormat(XHTMLText);

How could I ignore/remove the html tags of the "PlaceholderText" if the "lineEdit" is empty.

Regards,

Stoycho

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Стойчо Стефанов Stoycho Stefanov, 06/30/2016 04:57 PM

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Updated by Koen Deforche almost 8 years ago

Status changed from New to InProgress
Assignee set to Roel Standaert

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Updated by Koen Deforche almost 8 years ago

Status changed from InProgress to Feedback
Assignee deleted (~~Roel Standaert~~)
Priority changed from Normal to High

I'm not entirely sure how to resolve this in the library. But can you not work around the issue like below?

edit_ = new Wt::WInPlaceEdit();
edit_->setButtonsEnabled(false);
edit_->setPlaceholderText(WString("<i>not avaliable</i>"));
edit_->linedEdit()->setPlaceholderText(WString::Empty);
edit_->textWidget()->setTextFormat(XHTMLText);

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Updated by Стойчо Стефанов Stoycho Stefanov almost 8 years ago

Hey,

In order to make this work around really work, you have to distinguish between the place holder of the WInPlaceEdit's "textWidget" and that of the "lineEdit", because in the current implementation you have a single place holders due to:

const WString& WInPlaceEdit::placeholderText() const
{
  return edit_->placeholderText();
}

The following do the trick:

...
WString textPlaceHolder_;
...
void WInPlaceEdit::setPlaceholderText(const WString& text)
{
  textPlaceHolder_ = text;
  edit_->setPlaceholderText(text);
  if (empty_)
    text_->setText(text);
}

const WString& WInPlaceEdit::placeholderText() const
{
  return textPlaceHolder_;
}

regards,

Stoycho

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