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Providing Information to the User
Displaying Text
In addition to allowing users to start actions and to enter data,
interface elements display information to the user. Sometimes
these roles merge. For example, users frequently can change
the information that is presented to them.
The same text field object that is used
Informational
Text for data entry can also be used for
displaying unmodifiable text. The
Message Text
Interface Builder palette has two
such objects that you can use. After
you drag one of them into your window, you click the text
field to enter text, and you use the Format ...