Re: [xmlvm-users] SecureTextEntry...

[Arno P. <ar...@pu...>]

On 5/23/10 6:11 PM, Adrian Buerki wrote:
> There is a property secureTextEntry in the class UITextField. Seems
> like that is the password field support I was looking for. However
> this does not work in the iPhone Java emulator. I assume the problem
> is just in the emulator, once cross compiled the text field would
> behave correctly?

the Objective-C side does what it is supposed to do. This feature is not 
implemented in the Java emulator, as you have noticed.

That feature is easy to implement in the Java emulator and your patch is 
most certainly welcome. However, the question remains how far to push 
our Java emulator. The problem is that there are many very unique UI 
widgets in the iPhone SDK and it would mean a lot of work to provide a 
Java implementation. All of the new widgets Panayotis has implemented 
are only available on the Objective-C side. If someone feels the urge to 
do a Java version, what would certainly be nice.

A few weeks ago I proposed a debugging architecture for XMLVM. The 
benefit of the proposal would be that we can leverage Apple's own iPhone 
emulator (or even the actual device) and there would be no need for our 
Java emulator. I still hope to do that one day.

Arno