TextField - show hint before user starts typing text

Question

I am developing an Blackberry application. I want to show a hint text in TextField before user starts typing.when user starts typing it should disappear and when there are 0 characters in TextField it should show up.Has anybody implemented this yet?then please share.

Answer 1

here is the implementation within paint() method

String test = super.getText();
        if ( test == null || test.length() < 1 ) {
            graphics.setColor( 0x00a0a0a0 );
            graphics.drawText(hint, 0, 0);
        }

and here is the source thanks to peter_strange http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Java-Development/Prompt-hint-place-holder-text-on-a-Numeric-Password-edit-field/m-p/990817#M151704