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From: gdk@hpindda.HP.COM (Gary Koerzendorfer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: no-echo input
Message-ID: <4760003@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 31 May 90 19:02:01 GMT
References: <102@bohra.cpg.oz>
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams) writes:

> In article <102@bohra.cpg.oz> ejp@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Esmond Pitt) writes:
> >Is it possible to accept input without echo (e.g. password fields) under:
> >
> >	(1) MS-Windows

Check out "subclassing" in an MS-Windows book, specifically the call
"SetWindowLong". You don't want to echo anything, not even a dummy char, because
this would reveal the length of the password.

> ... you can set the foreground and background colors the same.

This is a clever trick! In X it's subject to being overridden unless you 
explicitly set the colors in the code, rather than the resource file. I think
I'd rather do it 'right', however, just in case.

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      Gary Koerzendorfer                               gdk@hpda.hp.com 
      Hewlett-Packard                                  (408) 447-2231
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