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Subject: Re: Hidden Dialog Input
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Date: 1 Mar 91 08:18:35 GMT
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In article <9102261333.AA27504@apple.com> STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) writes:
>I'd like to be able to enter text into a dialog box without it appearing
>on the screen, in order to secretly enter a password.  Is there a reasonable
>way of doing that?  (I'm using Orca/C.)

alan,
	do you have the developer sample source code disks from last year?
there was a program in it (i think either busybox or teach) that displayed
how to do this. i think this added capability is new for sys 5.0.x and
is documented in toolbox ref #3.

albert