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From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Editable Text Objects in Dialog Boxes
Message-ID: <32980@cup.portal.com>
Date: 19 Aug 90 06:36:33 GMT
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In your filterproc, store the "real" character off in some string,
and then convert the event to have some character like "*".

When the dialog is done, you can check the string to see what the
password was.

I like this better than changing the font, because then you have
to worry about someone replacing that font with something that
has all the characters, and then passwords show up.  Maybe you
can prevent this somehow, but why take chances?

						Tim Smith