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Article #636Re: no-echo input
From: Patrick Deupree
Date: Thu, 31 May 1990 15:11
Date: Thu, 31 May 1990 15:11
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In article <102@bohra.cpg.oz> ejp@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Esmond Pitt) writes: >I asked this a while ago but apparently it didn't get transmitted upstream. > >Is it possible to accept input without echo (e.g. password fields) under: > Under Windows I know it's possible. One of our programmers set up a system to do it under Actor. Basically what you do is look for a certain message (I forget the exact message) that tells you that something has just been entered into the edit control. You can then intercept the character and take care of putting whatever character you want into the edit control. Doing this will allow you to, for instance, put asterisks in the password field. Good stuff since I hate it when I can't get an indication of how many characters I've entered into a password field. -- "Organized fandom is composed of a bunch of nitpickers with a thing for trivial pursuit." -Harlan Ellison Patrick Deupree -> patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!gargoyle!chinet!patrickd From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2 Subject: Re: no-echo input Message-ID: <1990May31.151138.20898@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 31 May 90 15:11:38 GMT References: <102@bohra.cpg.oz> <1584@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston, IL Lines: 18