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From: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Password in TextEdit field?
Summary: Font with only one character in it
Keywords: TextEdit
Message-ID: <6117@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 90 21:51:17 GMT
References: <669@tci.bell-atl.com>
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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?

I did see a really {cute|elegant|klugy} approach to this in a hypercard FTP
stack that needed to ask for a password.  There was a font installed in the
stack (could be installed in your program) that had but one character in it,
the diamond used to indicate a typed character.  I assume ASCII code zero
mapped directly to the diamond and all others mapped to the standard
"default character" (last character in the font: the diamond! :-).

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