<Swing Dev> RFR: 8268087: Update documentation of the JPasswordField

Phil Race prr at openjdk.java.net
Thu Jun 3 00:59:37 UTC 2021


On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 00:46:04 GMT, Phil Race <prr at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The previous text you refer to is presumably
>> "where the view indicates  something was typed,"
>> 
>> that is fine. Your text is trying to say something else AND you added the word that which means you are referring to the specific thing .. 
>> 
>> So you can't just copy and edit that.
>> 
>> And "text" in my version is fine.
>
> So in case that wasn't clear, please change it to ny version

Another way of phrasing it would be 

The text displayed in {@code JPasswordField} shows you that something was typed but does not show the original characters.

Note "that something" not "something that" and the rest of the rephrasing matters too.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4296


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