Re: how to make input text invisible?

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From: rob
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 12:45

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>   Hi,
>
>   I'm putting together a demo of Telnet using Authorware, but got
>   stuck with a problem... in the screen I'm simulating as the Telnet
>   screen, I'm trying to make the text input for the password invisible,
>   as it's supposed to be when you're logging on.  Tried putting a white
>   box on top of it - didn't work; the input box apparently has a higher
>   priority.  Then tried pushing it off screen - didn't work either, the
>   box stopped at the border.  I tried reducing the box to nothing, and then
>   the program won't let me input more than one character.
>
>   Help!  Please send e-mail responses to krhee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu.
>   Thanks in advance.
>
>
>--
>Keith Rhee                        |  AISS - technograph - eMotion
>voice: (217) 333-7843             |  a boss says "Go."
>email: krhee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu     |  -- a leader says "Let's go."
>


Try making the text entered the same colour as the colour behind it.
eg white text on a white filled box.

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Rob Mackay-Wood
School of Biological Sciences (SOB's)
The University Of Sydney
Australia

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