Partial passwords

[Walter Vaughan]

Kenneth Brody wrote:

> Quoting Walter Vaughan (Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:12:53 -0500):
>
>> Jeff Harrison wrote:
>>
>>> I know.  However, Walter originally said that he did
>>> not want to use inputpw, and that he thought there may
>>> be a way to do this with an edit.  I don't think there
>>> is a way to do this with an edit.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Correct. And I really don't want an edit. I wanted a way to whenever a
>> field was displayed it showed ###'s but was stored as the actual values.
>>
>> I've just seen that functionality in so many places, I just assumed when
>> I came back to filePro it would be there.
>>
>> Not that I'm lazy, just a lot of places that need this, and I was hoping
>> to keep the rewrite down to changing an edit. Which now seems confusing,
>> because an edit really doesn't effect the storage engine.
>> filePro_edit <> SQL_field_type
>
>
> Was there a problem with passing the value through the edit I posted
> upthread, for display purposes, while keeping the actual value in a
> different field?
>
No. I had gotten used to declaring something as something (like 
password), and the framework automagically doing the right thing.