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From: kingman@tci.bell-atl.com (Matt Kingman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Password in TextEdit field?
Keywords: TextEdit
Message-ID: <669@tci.bell-atl.com>
Date: 8 Feb 90 22:25:03 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Technology Concepts, Inc.  Sudbury Mass.
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Does anyone have any good ideas on how to implement a password in a
TextEdit field?  So far, I've thought of this...

Manage 2 TextEdit records, one that the user can see and one that the
user can't.  Anything that the user types is placed into the unseen
one and an apple or diamond character is placed into the seen one.
Am I on the right track or off in the woods?  How would I handle
editing?  (ie. double clicks, cmd-c, cmd-v, etc...)  What considerations
must be made if this were done in a modal dialog?  (ie. would I need
a custom filterProc?)

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks,

/Matt 
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