Partial passwords

[Jeff Harrison]

--- fp at casabellagallery.com wrote:

> Walter posted:
> 
> [ snip ]
> > 
> > Hum. For the moment I belive a password edit will
> work. Why in the world 
> > can I not devine the password edit? I thought we
> had something that 
> > would display "#" since ProFile16 days.
> > I'm not talking about inputpw... I want a pw edit,
> or is that a 5.6 
> > function? I don't need it encrypted, just not
> displayable.
> > 
> 
> I do not know of such edit but if none exists:
> 
> Why not use @wef### trigger + input (@row, at col)
> pw(10,password) ""?
> @row and @col are the X,Y just to the left of the
> actual field.
> 
> If I am not mistaken, there is a new argument for
> input that a default
> value can be given thus setting your input variable
> to whatever the 
> real field is.
> 
> After obtaining your input, you can simply check
> number of characters
> in input field (pw in this case) and display as many
> # as needed.
> 
> Of course, a little of work is needed to make sure
> that you ALWAYS
> display ####### in lieu of actual text so, a dummy
> variable should be
> used on your screen while the real field is kept in
> the background.
> 
> Between @entsel, @wlf### and possibly automatic, I
> figure about 6 to
> 10 lines of code.  Oh, do not forget to 'skip' out
> of your @wef### trigger!
> 
> Hope this points you in the right direction!
> 
> 
> ---

Jose, I don't follow.  How do propose to get the input
without echoing the characters to the screen?  Did you
mean to use a popup update - instead of an input?

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The fastest and
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