Just stumbled over an inconvenient bug. Also here in the latest version of AC.
Place a couple of TEdits and TsEdits on a Form.
For all Components: Set .Text to “” and the TextHint property to “foo foo”
No SkinManager, nothing.
Run the app. You’ll see the the TextHint. When you click into the edit, the hint is gone.
When you exit the edit and it’s still empty the hint is here again.
Now skin the form.
Run the app.
The TextHint is visible, and disappears when you click into an edit. But it doesn’t come back.
Not sure, if looks (from the image) as if this has been reported, but in russian:
Cheers!