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P: LrView edit_field placeholder_string broken in Lightroom Classic CC

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May 11, 2018 May 11, 2018

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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:
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LR 5.7.1
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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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LEGEND ,
May 11, 2018 May 11, 2018

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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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Adobe Employee ,
May 11, 2018 May 11, 2018

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Thanks. I've asked engineering to investigate

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Contributor ,
Aug 23, 2018 Aug 23, 2018

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

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Oct 16, 2018 Oct 16, 2018

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

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