Access `visibility` property of PasswordEntry

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Background

I have a window with two Gtk.PasswordEntry widgets, one to enter the password and the other to confirm it, like so:

GTK window with "Create vault" title, and the following contents: "Make sure to remember your password, as you can't access the vault without it!" label in yellow, with a warning icon to the left; "This password will be used to encrypt the vault" label; "Password" password entry and "Confirm password" below it; "Confirm" button at the bottom.
GTK window with "Create vault" title, and the following contents: "Make sure to remember your password, as you can't access the vault without it!" label in yellow, with a warning icon to the left; "This password will be used to encrypt the vault" label; "Password" password entry and "Confirm password" below it; "Confirm" button at the bottom.382×310 17.5 KB

I would like to synchronize them so that when a user clicks the peek icon on one, it triggers the text visibility of the other.

However, Gtk.PasswordEntry doesn’t expose the visibility property of the underlying text entry (I think it’s using Gtk.Text in the implementation?) widget, so doing it either through UI file, or in code doesn’t work.

I tried both:

PasswordEntry password_entry { }

PasswordEntry confirm_password_entry {
  visibility: bind password_entry.visibility bidirectional;
}

and:

g_object_bind_property(password_entry, "visibility", confirm_password_entry, "visibility", G_BINDING_BIDIRECTIONAL);

and it fails, unsurprisingly, with The source object of type GtkPasswordEntry has no property called 'visibility'.

Question: Is there a way to access either the property, or the underlying text entry widget? Or do I need to create my own widget and copy the implementation of PasswordEntry, and add the necessary code?

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You should be able to do the latter with gtk_editable_get_delegate().

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That does precisely work for my use case. Thank you.