From 983da070950ca74aab2d9f05cda3b4143cd66322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:37:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #7753 (setPlaceholderText not found)

---
 src/calibre/gui2/search_box.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/search_box.py b/src/calibre/gui2/search_box.py
index 4d598a3bbb..94c9bbe33d 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/search_box.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/search_box.py
@@ -236,7 +236,11 @@ class SavedSearchBox(QComboBox):
 
     def initialize(self, _search_box, colorize=False, help_text=_('Search')):
         self.search_box = _search_box
-        self.line_edit.setPlaceholderText(help_text)
+        try:
+           self.line_edit.setPlaceholderText(help_text)
+        except:
+            # Using Qt < 4.7
+            pass
         self.colorize = colorize
         self.clear()