Subclassing and overriding UITextField in Monotouch

Question

I am trying to set the placeholder text for a UITextField to a different color. I have learned that I need to subclass and override drawPlaceholderInRect method.

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Answer 1

The original ObjC code does not call super (it's base method) but drawInRect:. Have you tried the same with MonoTouch ? e.g.

public override void DrawPlaceholder (RectangleF rect)
{
    using (UIFont font = UIFont.SystemFontOfSize (16))
    using (UIColor col = new UIColor (0,0,255.0,0.7)) {
        col.SetFill ();
        base.DrawString (rect, font);
    }
}

Note: drawInRect:WithFont: maps to the DrawString extension method in C# (which can be called on any string).