Re: [gtk-list] Re: gtk_entry and passwords... (fwd)

[Otto Hammersmith <otto redhat com>]

On Fri, Oct 03, 1997 at 01:27:03PM -0700, Raph Levien wrote:
> I just got this mail. Looking over the patch, I can't quite see how it 
> would work, because it only seems to affect the get_text call, where the 
> main calls that need to be affected are draw_text and so on.

hehe... and I -thought- changing the colors should work... and I
-thought- mucking with the draw_string funciton pointer would work.
Still haven't gotten an answer to that one... (anyone? anyone? anyone?
beuller!)
 
> I agree with Dan, however, that the most concise way to get a password 
> entry widget working would be to add the visibility flag as he proposes, 
> rather than subclassing the widget. Obviously I've been infected by the 
> object orientation virus :)
> 
> Raph

Someone (Andy Lovell, now that I look in my inbox) sent me a patch
that does just that... we have some internal gtk+ packages with the
patch, and I just finished testing it.

The only problem I have with it is that the cursor moves... well, it
doesn't show up, unless you focus out of the window then back in.
That should be easy to fix... I hope. :)

I'm just about e-mail him (of course, he's reading this right
now...:) to see if he minded if I submitted the patch (slight
modified, probably) to the "real" gtk+.

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 13:13:06 -0700
> From: Dan Stromberg <strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu>
> To: raph@acm.org
> Subject: Re: [gtk-list] Re: gtk_entry and passwords...
> 
> I'd send this to the list, but my messages to the list never make it to
> the list.  :-S

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					-Otto.