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From: JAlred.ElSegundo@XEROX.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Character masking in a Athena Text Widget
Message-ID: <891102-095537-4166@Xerox>
Date: 2 Nov 89 17:54:43 GMT
Reply-To: JAlred.ElSegundo@xerox.com
Organization: The Internet
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   I am writing an application which contains an asciiStringWidget into
which a user will type a password.  I there a simple way to mask the
characters being typed or pasted in with some other characters (*'s for
instance) so that the password will not be visible to the casual passer-by?
   In SunView, this is accomplished by specifying PANEL_MASK_CHAR, '*'.
   
   Thanks for any help,
   
   Jim Alred  <JAlred.ElSegundo@Xerox.com>