Thanks. That got me pointed in the right direction. Setting the placeholder string to nil in control:textShouldBeginEditing clears the stray second line away nicely. Setting it back in control:textShouldEndEditing appears to prevent editing from actually ending. Setting it back in the control's action works, though. I do now see the reverse problem when the user clears the text; the first line of the old placeholder string appears even after it's been set to nil. I'm much less concerned about this, though, because while populating this field is something a user will do every time they create a new document in this application, clearing it should be comparatively rare. Thanks again for your help. Regards, Geoff On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Ross Carter <rosscarterdev@me.com> wrote:

Use the delegate method control:textShouldBeginEditing: to set the placeholder string to nil when editing begins, and control:textShouldEndEditing: to restore the placeholder if the text field is empty?

On Feb 29, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Geoff Beier wrote:

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I've opened radar #10954811 about the appearance of placeholder text in a multi-line NSTextField. If the placeholder is sufficiently long, when a user clicks the field and starts typing, only the first line of placeholder text gets cleared until the edit is finished.

I ran across this while picking up a project that I hadn't worked on since before the Lion upgrade. This would seem to be new behavior in Lion.

Here is a trivial sample project that demonstrates the problem: https://downloads.redhoundsoftware.com/listshare/PlaceholderTest.zip

Does anyone know a way to work around this?

Thanks for any insight.

Regards,

Geoff _______________________________________________

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