restrict number of characters in a field?

[Klaus Major]

Hi Ben and Dar,

> On 27/7/06 03:03, Dar Scott wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Yikes!  Thanks Dar, I didn't know this.  It's a nasty one, since I  
> can't see any workaround.
>
> Interestingly the behaviour has changed a bit between 2.6.1 and  
> 2.7.2, but not fixing this bug.  I've added a report to BZ 1147  
> confirming that this is still a bug in 2.7.2 on Mac OS X 10.7.4 -  
> but I can't re-open the bug, only Klaus or someone at RunRev can.
>
> Klaus - could you re-open this bug please?

I just re-opened this bug.

>   Ben Rubinstein               |  Email: benr_mc at cogapp.com
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Regards

Klaus Major
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