Setting an hint in one of the combobox is not working

Smart GWT Technical Q&A
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Setting an hint in one of the combobox examples on http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/showcase/#styled_combobox_category
with the custom field is not working properly.

  1. The hint is displayed after page is loaded. Thats fine.
    If you choose an entry and remove content again, the hint is not displayed again, instead empty space.

  2. On IE 8, if you select an item, it is not displayed in the field.

I used setHint(“Any”) and setShowHintInField(true)

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Unless the value goes back to null, the hint will not show again.