Re: Bullet drawing in secure textfields

[Saso Kiselkov]

It's primarily meant to just replace the stars with real bullets. The
fact that it may perform faster is near to no meaning, given the
typically tiny data set being manipulated.

--
Saso

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> Hi Saso,
>
> thank you for this patch. It just arrived a few weeks to late :-)
> I recently implemented the needed behaviour on GSLayoutManager and
> NSGlyphGenerator. Now we are able to use a specific glyph generator
> for the secure text fields. I just wanted to wait some time with
> implementing this until the code in NSGlyphGenerator has gotten better
> tested, otherwise I may have to revert this change.
>
> What I did not understand about your patch was the first bit where you
> changed the generation of the replacement string. Is your code just a
> bit faster or is there any other reason for the change? OK, you use a
> bullet instead of a star. Is it that? I am asking, as this part of the
> patch is still relevant.
>
> Fred
>
> Saso Kiselkov wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I've prepared a simple patch which implements bullet echoing in secure
>> text fields. It's a done in a rather stupid way, but it's functional.
>>
>> Regards
>> -- 
>> Saso
>>
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