Re: Supplementary Text

• Subject: Re: Supplementary Text
• From: Rob Juurlink <email@hidden>
• Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:16:18 +0200
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email@hidden wrote:
> 
> Is there an official name for this GUI feature?  As soon as the
> component gets the focus, the extra text goes away.
> 
> I developed something to achieve a similar effect in Java:
> http://homepage.mac.com/bricolage1/samples/InstructionalText.java
> 

Something similar:
http://code.google.com/p/xswingx/

The author calls it Prompt Support, but I'm not sure if that is an
official term.


Rob Juurlink
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