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GfFormDropDown Never Displays Hint Text

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
dart, flutter
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Reproduce the minimal Dart/Flutter example from the issue, then inspect the GfFormDropDown implementation and its hintText handling. Confirm the dropdown initially shows the hint text rather than the first value, and verify the behavior with the example after selecting an option.

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Description

Here is a minimal example:

GfForm(
        onFormSubmitted: (values) {},
        formfields: [
          GfFormDropDown(
              values: ["option 1", "option 2"],
              hintText: "please select an option")
        ],
        defaultSubmitButtonEnabled: true);

This renders a form with a dropdown that displays the first option from the values rather then the hint text.

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