iOS Question Textarea's hinttext does not blank out

There is no view named TextArea in B4i. I guess that you mean TextField.

The hint will disappear automatically when the text will not be empty.

Try to add Sleep(5) before you set the HintText property.

ok, tried that. thanks! did not work.

the idea is that when you tap on the textfield the hint text disappears and you see an empty
box...before you start to enter text.

here, the hint text stays there until you start to type-in text and then it disappears (as you said).

Try FloatLabeledTextField from iUI8 library. It provides a nicer hint feature. I don't remember whether it moves up when the field become focused or when you enter something.

ok i put that iuI8 library in and got a failure on the compile (hosted builder).

The following build commands failed:
CompileC build/B4iProject.build/Release-iphoneos/B4iProject.build/Objects-normal/armv7/b4i_httpjob.o B4iProject/b4i_httpjob.m normal armv7 objective-c com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0.compiler
CompileC build/B4iProject.build/Release-iphoneos/B4iProject.build/Objects-normal/armv7/b4i_httputils2service.o B4iProject/b4i_httputils2service.m normal armv7 objective-c com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0.compiler
CompileC build/B4iProject.build/Release-iphoneos/B4iProject.build/Objects-normal/armv7/b4i_richstring.o B4iProject/b4i_richstring.m normal armv7 objective-c com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0.compiler
(3 failures)

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