obscureText and Long Press

[dan....@stonebridgeprojects.com]

Hi,

Rank amateur here, so please forgive naive questions.

I am using TextEditingController for text fields in a MaterialApp app. If I set obscureText to false or remove it, I can cut, copy and paste in my text fields.  When I set obscureText to true, however, the text fields don't seem to respond to a long press and so I cannot cut, copy or paste. Is this expected behaviour?  If not, any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong?

Here is my version info:

$ flutter --version

Flutter 1.1.8 • channel beta • https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git

Framework • revision 985ccb6d14 (5 weeks ago) • 2019-01-08 13:45:55 -0800

Engine • revision 7112b72cc2

Tools • Dart 2.1.1 (build 2.1.1-dev.0.1 ec86471ccc)

Thanks very much for your help.

-Dan

[Andrea Salvatore]

Hello Dan,

I think it's the expected behaviour. You are not supposed to copy and paste obscured passwords for example ;)

Cheers,

Andrea

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[dan....@stonebridgeprojects.com]

Thanks, Andrea.  I see what you mean about copying obscured values, but it is often possible to paste into obscured fields.  Google's login, for example, allows paste to the password field.  I guess the answer in this case comes down to what the Flutter designers intended.

-Dan

[Ian Hickson]

Yeah we should allow paste. Please file a bug!

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Ian Hickson

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[dan....@stonebridgeprojects.com]

Thanks, Ian.  Will do.

-Dan

[dan....@stonebridgeprojects.com]

Seems to have been reported already: #27353.

-Dan