For some reason known only to Apple, NSSecureTextField allows pasting text into it using its standard context menu, but not using the standard Cmd+V keyboard shortcut. Moreover, apparently the control does something special to disable it because pressing Cmd+V does result in a call to -[NSSecureTextField control:textView:doCommandBySelector:], but with a dummy "noop:" selector. Detect this specific situation and check if we're called while handling Cmd+V event and, if this is indeed the case, do paste the text into the control. While it could be argued that this changes the platform behaviour, it seems very hard, if not impossible, to imagine a situation in which this would be a problem while not being able to easily paste into password fields is definitely a real usability bug.
About
wxWidgets is a free and open source cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI applications using native controls.
wxWidgets allows you to write native-looking GUI applications for all the major desktop platforms and also helps with abstracting the differences in the non-GUI aspects between them. It is free for the use in both open source and commercial applications, comes with the full, easy to read and modify, source and extensive documentation and a collection of more than a hundred examples. You can learn more about wxWidgets at https://www.wxwidgets.org/ and read its documentation online at http://docs.wxwidgets.org/
Platforms
wxWidgets currently supports the following primary platforms:
- Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10 (32/64 bits).
- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.6 or newer or 3.x).
- OS X (10.7 or newer) using Cocoa (32/64 bits).
Most popular C++ compilers are supported including but not limited to:
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2003 or later (up to 2015).
- g++ 3.4 or later, including MinGW/MinGW-64/TDM under Windows.
- Clang under OS X and Linux.
- Intel icc compiler.
- Oracle (ex-Sun) aCC.
Licence
wxWidgets licence is a modified version of LGPL explicitly allowing not distributing the sources of an application using the library even in the case of static linking.
Further information
If you are looking for support, you can get it from
- Mailing Lists
- Discussion Forums
- #wxwidgets IRC channel
- Stack Overflow
(tag your questions with
wxwidgets
) - Please report bugs at http://trac.wxwidgets.org/newticket
We would also gladly welcome your contributions.
Have fun!
The wxWidgets Team.