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I'm beginning to think this code is

2025-01-20 23:25:02.970152+01 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

I'm beginning to think this code is just messing with me:

hiddenPasswordField.isHidden = true;

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#Comment Re: I'm beginning to think this code is made: 2025-01-21 00:04:34.820459+01 by: markd

One of those historical accidents they probably could have handled a LOT better.

in the olden days, there was no visibility flag on NSView - to hide one, you moved it offscreen or took it out of the view hierarchy.

Eventually someone convinced apple that having a visibility flag would be a really convenient thing. "We need a default value of zero because that's what new objective-C objects get initialized to" - rather than figuring out how to get all the view subclasses to be visibility by default, a new flag that's useful as a zero was added - hidden. So now you have to do to the double-negative mind screw every time you want to reason about it. (amusingly enough, during my weekly MusicJot pairing last week, we complained about that very construct)

#Comment Re: I'm beginning to think this code is made: 2025-01-21 00:04:34.820459+01 by: Dan Lyke [edit history]

Yeah, I've mostly gotten used to it, but the fact that this code has a hiddenPasswordField : NSSecureTextField! and a visiblePasswordField : NSTextField! makes reading some if it bizarre.

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