UITextField has trailing whitespace after secureTextEntry toggle

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i’ve just encounter this case and finally solved this problem.

works on Latest iOS SDK, iOS 8.1

First of all, there is no trailing space at all.

The dot(shown in SecureEntry) character and normal character have different width and after you toggle isSecureEntry switch, the cursor didn’t refresh it’s position.

so i use this workaround to solved this problem.

- (void)toggle
{
    NSString *tmpString;
    [self.passwordTextField setSecureTextEntry:!self.passwordTextField.isSecureTextEntry];
    if (self.passwordTextField.isSecureTextEntry) {
       // do stuffs
    } else {
       // do other stuffs
    }
    // Workaround to refresh cursor
    tmpString = self.passwordTextField.text;
    self.passwordTextField.text = @" ";
    self.passwordTextField.text = tmpString;
}

Swift 3+

   // Workaround to refresh cursor

    let currentText: String = self.userPassword.text!
    self.userPassword.text = "";
    self.userPassword.text = currentText

hope it helps!

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