Path: utzoo!mnetor!motto!dave
From: dave@motto.UUCP (David Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: no-echo input
Message-ID: <134@motto.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 90 12:42:43 GMT
References: <102@bohra.cpg.oz>
Reply-To: dave@motto.UUCP (David Brown)
Organization: Motorola Canada, Ltd.
Lines: 24

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:
>
>	(1) MS-Windows
>	(2) PM
>
>and if so, how?

I asked Microsoft this question for Presentation Manager a while ago, and
received the following response:

    Under OS/2 version 1.2 the edit control now has a new class style. 
    It is ES_UNREADABLE and causes all input characters to be echoed to
    the screen as asterisks, i.e. '*'.  This was obviously designed for
    password fields.

I am still waiting for my copy of 1.2, so I haven't tried this yet.

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