Re: Can I Hide / Show an NSTextField / NSSecureTextField in Cocoa?
Re: Can I Hide / Show an NSTextField / NSSecureTextField in Cocoa?
- Subject: Re: Can I Hide / Show an NSTextField / NSSecureTextField in Cocoa?
- From: "Gary L. Wade" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:06:06 -0800
- Thread-topic: Can I Hide / Show an NSTextField / NSSecureTextField in Cocoa?
Yeah, that demo issue came up yesterday, so I filed my own rdar://16013973
and as you know, it always helps to add duplicates! I marked mine as an
issue with Security and Always. I suggested only showing the hints on the
actual device and doing a secondary broadcast without the hint on
secondary devices, especially simulators and AirPlay similar to how the
old DVD anti-copy-protection thing worked.
--
Gary L. Wade
http://www.garywade.com/
On 2/8/2014 9:56 AM, "Kyle Sluder" <email@hidden> wrote:
>On Feb 8, 2014, at 5:37 AM, David Delmonte <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I realized I could do this: 1. use just an NSTextField, and 2. if
>>(hiding) textField.stringValue = @"******";
>> Is there something I'm missing?
>
>Please don't do this. NSSecureTextFieldCell uses a custom field editor
>that protects the password from being snarled via Accessibility or event
>taps.
>
>Also, computer screens are much more likely to be visible to other people
>than phone screens, and people in general are more confident typists on
>physical keyboards than on virtual ones. Showing characters as they type
>is doing a disservice. (In fact, now that AirPlay Mirroring is so
>prevalent, I've been meaning to file a Radar asking Apple to remove the
>³show last character typed² feature from UIKit.)
>
>--Kyle Sluder
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