QLineEdit default text

[Guilo]

Hi !

I am using a QLineEdit and would like to have a default text when the QLineEdit is empty. Usually this text is grey and in italic (like in QtCreator). But the only thing I have found to perform this is setPlaceHolderText() but the documentation says it has been introduced in Qt 4.7...

Any idea ? Thanks

[aamer4yu]

You will need to subclas QLIneEdit.
On focusIn and focusOut events you will have set / clear the gray text.
And I guess making text gray is not that difficult

[Guilo]

OK, I just wondered if there was something quicker

[soulless]

I think either you can use event filters: Events and Event Filters

[faldzip]

You can check on qt.gitorious.com the sources and find how Trolls did it in Qt 4.7's QLineEdit :]

[kongkong163]

how did you solve your problem? I meet this too.