We’re implementing some user-interface gubbins tonight and we’ve bumped into one of those things that remind you were dealing with a work in progress and not the be-all and end-all of Integrated Development Environments. I’m not a coder so it just annoys me.
The annoyance? I like rounded text fields for the uid and password entry for SyncBridge. They look neat. They fit with the interface. It flows.
But you can’t have a NSSecureTextField (the password field) with rounded corners.
Why not? Is it a user interface faux-pas? This forum post from January 2005 says:
“It’s not possible to make a NSSecureTextfield with rounded corners without subclassing the hole thing and thats a big party. So let’s wait for 10.4 and hope this one gets fixed.”
I guess it’s simply not to be.
It’s not that I really mind, it just reminds me that this whole thing is a work in progress and sometimes some things don’t get fixed before ship date.
Progress Update: It works. It works bloody well. And I did a happy dance in my chair when we saw it doing everything perfectly. And though it’s not running on the production server, it was quick enough to happen when you launch iCal. Mucho pleased. Now we just need to make it purty.