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[just me]

EM_SETCUEBANNER

Sets the textual cue, or tip, that is displayed by the edit control to prompt the user for information.
[*:2u85gcfu]You cannot set a cue banner on a multiline edit control or on a rich edit control.
[*:2u85gcfu]The cue banners don't work when the Asian language pack is installed on XP (the "Install files for East Asian languages" option). See <!-- m -->http://blogs.msdn.co... ... 38735.aspx<!-- m --> . This issue is fixed on Vista.
[*:2u85gcfu]wParam TRUE - only appears to work on Vista. Under XP the cue text always disappears when the control gets focus regardless of this parameter.

Gui, Margin, 20, 20
Gui, Font, s10 Bold
Gui, Add, Text, , Name
Gui, Font, Normal
Gui, Add, Edit, xm y+10 w150 hwndHED1
SetEditCueBanner(HED1, "First")
Gui, Add, Edit, x+10 yp wp hwndHED2
SetEditCueBanner(HED2, "Last")
Gui, Show, , EM_SETCUEBANNER
Return
GuiClose:
ExitApp 

SetEditCueBanner(HWND, Cue) {  ; requires AHL_L
   Static EM_SETCUEBANNER := (0x1500 + 1)
   Return DllCall("User32.dll\SendMessageW", "Ptr", HWND, "Uint", EM_SETCUEBANNER, "Ptr", True, "WStr", Cue)
}

If the function cannot be used because of the above mentioned limitations you may try Placeholder()

[sumon]

Very nice!



In HTML5, this is known as a "placeholder", and it's actually extremely useful in my opinion. Shouldn't be overused, of course, but it's a very good design habit to make cues as clear as possible.

[Cragaha]

Very nice

[hughman]

The cue banners don't work when the Asian language pack is installed on XP

[Learning one]

Nice. Useful. Short. Simple.
I like it! Thanks.

[sinkfaze]

A caveat emptor from a guest in the [fn][L] Placeholder() thread:

...EM_SETCUEBANNER does not work on multi-line edit controls...

[just me]

All caveat emptors are stated on the EM_SETCUEBANNER page (see OP). :wink:

[sinkfaze]

A new user may not find that link to be obvious, so it's probably a better idea to state it up front.

[just me]

Done.

[gwarble]

Nice work,

For _Basic, see:
<!-- m -->http://www.autohotke... ... 975#368975<!-- m -->

[hoppfrosch]

Nice one - everything seems so simple, when you know how to do it ...

[Foodfast04]

is the cue banner work when I'm using Windows 7 and installed Asian Language Pack in system.

[just me]

This issue is fixed on Vista.

...and hopefully on Win 7? I don't know.

[Wicked]

Thank you for showing this! ! !