Edit Control Watermark

Question

I would like to implement a grey text watermark in an edit control in C++ with Win32 API, but I'm not sure of any ways to do it besides handling WM_KEYDOWN messages.

I would like something like this:

Any ideas?

Are you talking about the gray text or the icon? – Anders Mar 17 '18 at 01:12 — Anders, Mar 17 '18 at 01:12
@Anders I'm talking about the grey text. – Michael Mar 17 '18 at 01:14 — Michael, Mar 17 '18 at 01:14

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 17 '18 at 01:19

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Send the EM_SETCUEBANNER message to your edit control.

Pass a unicode string to display in lparam.

e.g.:

SendMessage(hwnd, EM_SETCUEBANNER, (WPARAM) FALSE, (LPARAM) strW);

answered Mar 17 '18 at 01:19

TheNextman

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