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From: jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: ASK PASSWORD Bug in HC 2.0?!?!
Message-ID: <47864@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 91 20:43:13 GMT
References: <1991Jan8.160347.2747@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991Jan8.160347.2747@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> ciru@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au
(Mike Schon-Hegrad) writes:

>         ...I believe I've discovered a bug which I feel is quite
>serious/limiting.

>If you click on the "Cancel" button after you have entered text into the box
>Hypercard still encrypts what was in the box and returns that in the "it"
>variable.  

>So the problem is that this bug prevents you from determining whether someone
>has decided to click "Cancel" after they have typed something into the box and
>you can't distinguish this from a real password.

>2 questions I would please like answered (if possible) depending on the
>awareness of this problem.
>
>   1.  Can someone suggest a tempory way around it till it is fixed?

If the user clicks "Cancel", then the result contains "Cancel".

>   2.  Is there a fix in Hypercard 2.x?  Is that version of Hypercard
>available yet?

The bug is fixed in HyperCard 2.0v2, available from Claris.

Kevin Calhoun
HyperCard Team
Apple Computer, Inc.