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From: jaccard@dssmv2.mpr.ca (Philippe Jaccard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Text widget
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Date: 3 Oct 90 15:58:46 GMT
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Reply-To: jaccard@dssmv2.UUCP (Philippe Jaccard)
Organization: Microtel Pacific Research Ltd., Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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I am trying to use a MOTIF text widget as a password entry field.
This field must display a '*' or any other character for each user
input.
I was thinking of using the XmNmodifyVerify callback to maintain a copy
of the text string.
After having duplicate the insertion/deletion in my backup field, I was
thinking of simply replacing callbackArg->text->ptr with '*'.
It seems that the text provided in the callback datas is only a copy.
The text widget don't use these datas to perform text modifications !

Does anybody knows more on this text widget behaviour ?
I'll appreciate any suggestions.

Philippe