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In comp.windows.interviews, brock@sumex-aim.Stanford.EDU (Kevin Brock) writes:

> In article <9204021358.AA05217@sparc7.cnm.us.es>, juando@sparc7.es writes:
 
>   [deleted]

> >     Have you tried setting background and foreground to the same color inside
> > a field-editor?
 
> The feedback I've gotten from users about password editors
> is that they usually want *some* feedback; say an 'X' for 
> every character they type... 

Fine. Echo a ' ' for every character typed. If you're using a
proportional font, it's going to be hard for a person leaning over the
shoulder to count the number of letters (which is the traditional
objection to echoing '.'s or something else for each character).

Actually, background=foreground will work, too, in spite of someone's
objections, as long as the window accepting the input is a transient one
(i.e. goes away as soon as the user types a "CR" or clicks "OK"). A
window does not exist cannot be cut from..
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