On 08 Feb 2014, at 14:37, David Delmonte <ddelmo...@mac.com> wrote: > On Feb 7, 2014, at 7:44 PM, Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014, at 04:27 PM, David Delmonte wrote: >>> Hi, Is there a way to turn secureTextField on and off in Cocoa? I'd like >>> users to have the option to see their passwords. >>> In iOS, I can do something like [textField setSecureTextEntry:YES]; >>> >>> I found [secureTextField setEchoBullets] but that's not what I want. >> >> No. You'll have to swap between instances of NSTextField and >> NSSecureTextField, keeping the two controls' stringValues in sync. > I realized I could do this: 1. use just an NSTextField, and 2. if (hiding) > textField.stringValue = @"******"; > Is there something I'm missing?
How will you get whatever string the user entered into the field if you replace it with bullets (I hope you plan to use bullets, not asterisks)? What if the user selects the first character and replaces it with a new one? Have you thought about international character sets like Japanese or Hebrew? Cheers, -- Uli Kusterer “The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere...” http://zathras.de _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
