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From: lefty@twg.com (David N. Schlesinger)
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Subject: Re: Password in TextEdit field?
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Date: 10 Feb 90 21:58:44 GMT
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In article <669@tci.bell-atl.com> kingman@tci.bell-atl.com (Matt Kingman) 
writes:
> Does anyone have any good ideas on how to implement a password in a
> TextEdit field?

Since your TextEdit field is likely to be in a dialog box, let me suggest 
the following.  Use a filterProc to ModalDialog which will trap keyDown 
events, store the character the user typed into a global buffer and 
replace the character in the EventRecord with (for instance) an "apple" or 
a "diamond".  Make delete wipe out the entire text entered (since the user 
can't see what he's entered anyway).  Copy and paste can also be handled 
in the filterProc, if you want.

Hope this helps.

Lefty

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