restrict number of characters in a field?

[Dar Scott]

On Jul 26, 2006, at 6:26 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:

> Note that this code will not prevent pasting or drag-and-dropping  
> of larger  blocks of text into the field.  It only works for text  
> newly typed from the keyboard.

Except for typed character U with an umlaut or E with an acute accent  
on OS X and probably other characters with accent marks.  At least on  
my keyboard (US).

This is bug 1147, which for some reason is marked fixed.

This leak of keyboard typing to the field is a serious (or at least  
embarrassing) problem for 'ask password' and casual implementations  
of password dialog boxes.

It is probably a problem with many applications that use xxxxKeyDown.

Dar Scott