Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!kth!sunic!Urd!newsuser
From: newsuser@LTH.Se (LTH network news server)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Password a'la AppleShare
Message-ID: <1989May16.174031.2607@LTH.Se>
Date: 16 May 89 16:40:30 GMT
Reply-To: joakim_b@tts.lth.se (Joakim Bengttson)
Organization: Communication Systems, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
Lines: 26


Hello!

I want to make a login dialog with username and a password.
The password should be protected by exchanging characters to 
"*" or similar, like the AppleShare login. How should this be
done? 

o  Changing the DialogRecord.textH.txFont when the user
   enters the password field does not work when the dialog needs
   an update.

o  Exchanging characters with * in a filterproc and handling the 
   string updates myself?

o  Useritem which consists of a textrecord on its own?

Or is there any easier way?

/Thanks Joakim 

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