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 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gnustep-dev mailing list >> Gnustep-dev@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev > _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev