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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
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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.
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