Re: [gtk-list] Re: GtkEntry BUG

[Yoni Elhanani <biggo netvision net il>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> Gert Scholten <gs2@dds.nl> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I found a bug in the GTKentry widget:
> > If you have an entry widget, and select text from the back to the front, the
> > first char is not written in white on blue, but in black on blue. This is also
> > the case with a entry that has set_visible set to FALSE, now the first char is
> > an BLACK char, a WHITE star and an BLUE background ...
> >
> > This way, one can read passwords (char for char) ...
> 
> What version of GTK+ do you have? This was supposedly fixed
> a couple of weeks ago, and should be OK in 1.1.13, 1.1.14.
> 
> Thu Jan 14 17:47:37 1999  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>
> 
>         * gtk/gtkentry.c (gtk_entry_draw_cursor_on_drawable): Only
>          redraw character under cursor when not displaying
>         highlighted selection.
> 
> Of course, you can cut and paste from a !visible
> entry, so it still isn't safe to leave a typed-in
> password sitting around on the screen...

what?
this should be fixed. (imho)
if you copy from it you should copy the mask-stars instead

> 
>                                         Owen
> 
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