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From: dzimmerman@gnh-tff.cts.com (Daniel Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Hidden Dialog Input
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Date: 28 Feb 91 00:36:10 GMT
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>> I'd like to enter text into a dialog box without it appearing on the
>> screen...

Well, the LineEdit Extended Control supports a great little feature called a
"password field", which lets you do just that! Unfortunately, Extended Controls
are not really supported in dialogs. If you use NewWindow2 to make a
dialog-like box and TaskMaster to treat it modally, it will work, or you can
use the DTS FakeModalDialog routines (available from apple.com, I'm sure)...
Anyway, to make the LE control a "password field", just set the high-order bit
of the "maxSize" word in the control template to equal 1. The default character
to echo is "*" - to change it, put the ASCII value of the character you want to
echo in the "lePWChar" field of the LineEdit record for the control (the last
word in the LineEdit record, at offset $38).

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