I am always feeling like an archaelogist when looking at these things...

Phil

2012/10/14 Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]>

>
> On Oct 14, 2012, at 1:22 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>
> > An EncryptedMultiDisplayScanner is a MultiDisplayScanner displaying
> > stars instead of characters (for password by example)
> >
> > Wow... this is soooo overkill!
>
> Indeed I was not aware of that system.
>
> >
> > Look at the amount of extra code we have just to simply displaying
> > stupid stars ... ************
> >
> > See the:
> > EncryptedTextMorphForFieldView>>drawOn:
> > ...
> > aCanvas encryptedParagraph: self paragraph bounds: fauxBounds color:
> color.
> >
> > ehh?.. Since when canvas (a tool for drawing graphic primitives and
> > text) needs to know anything like that?
> >
> > I'm not sure if there could be better/simpler solution (considering
> > that we don't have a simple line editor and need to go over
> > overcomplicated text->composer->scanner->displayscanner chain to be
> > able to edit even single string..
> > but that's really, really stupid to penetrate multiple layers of
> > responsibility just to display stars instead of characters...
> >
> > What if i would like to display '%' instead of chars, should i also go
> > and repeat same way??
> >
> > We should get rid of this thing..
>
> Yes.
>
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Igor Stasenko.
> >
>
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