P: LrView edit_field placeholder_string broken in Lightroom Classic CC

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Lightroom 7.x broke the ability to show placeholder_string in text input fields created by LrView.osFactory():edit_field and password_field.

This is visible e.g. in Hard drive publish service description fields, first Lightroom Classic CC 7.3.1 and then Lightroom 5.7.1 (sadly I couldnt run 6.14 concurrently with latest release, all I got was error 1 on startup)

LR 7.3.1:

LR 5.7.1

As you can see, the placeholder string "Untitled export" is not visible in Classic CC, and so are not any other placeholder_strings. I think this used to work fine in 6.x, and I've used for example login/password fields in my plugins. Now the users are pretty confused because all they see is empty text field.

Tested on Lightroom 7.3.1, macOS 10.13.4. Sorry, didn't try it on Windows.

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jarnoh11691516Author

Inspiring

Lightroom 8, still no placeholders. I'm giving up and adding static_text.

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jarnoh11691516Author

Inspiring

LR 7.5 on Mac, placeholder still doesn't work.

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J453

Legend

Thanks. I've asked engineering to investigate

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johnrellis

Legend

Here's a small script that shows the problem:

local LrDialogs = import 'LrDialogs'
local LrView = import 'LrView'
local f = LrView.osFactory()
local result = LrDialogs.presentModalDialog {title = "Placeholder", 
    contents = f:edit_field {placeholder_string = "My placeholder"}}

This script works on Macos 10.13.4 / LR 2015.14 (6.14).

This script doesn't work on Macos 10.13.4 / LR 7.2, LR 7.3.1; Windows 10 / LR 7.3.1.

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