passwords in fields

Mark Mitchell mark_mitchell at kmug.org
Tue Jan 22 04:53:00 EST 2002


chip writes:
Not sure how to create a field where typing a password is automatically
replaced with ********* during the typing? Is this not a property  of a
field? Like set the password of fld 1 to true? Any ideas?

You can trap the keydown message in a card script before it gets to the field.  Or put the keydown handler in the password
field itself.

on keydown whichKey
global thisPassword
put whichKey after thisPassword
put "*" after field "passwordField"
end keyDown

Alternatively, if you control the fonts on the computer, you can just set the textFont property to something like 'webdings'.

goodluck,
mark




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