Display PlaceHolder Text

Question

I have a countdown timer textfield that displays 60 as a placeholder (grey). When I start the timer, it goes black and starts counting down. At the end, I invalidate the timer and set the countdown textfield back to 60. Of course, it's black now. How do I get it back to the placeholder text of 60 (meaning that it's grey) without resorting to a hack using NSAttributedString?

Answer 1

If you are using the "value" binding on the NSTextField, you will need to set the Null Placeholder for the binding instead of for the text cell's placeholder. The empty string (@"" ) does seem to count as a null value for the purposes of the placeholder.