masking text

[Larry Watts]

Thanks Trevor,
Exactly the kind of solution I was looking for!
Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Trevor DeVore" <lists at mangomultimedia.com>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: masking text


> On Nov 7, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Larry Watts wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to mask text input into a field, as when a user  enters a 
>> password?  I thought this is so common there should have  been an easy 
>> answer.
>
> Hi Larry,
>
> There are a couple of different approaches you can take. I like to use  a 
> custom font that displays bullets for every character entered. This 
> allows you to set and get the text of the password field without  having 
> to store the actual characters entered elsewhere. I find this  more 
> convenient.
>
> I posted a lesson on this technique here:
> <http://revolution.screenstepslive.com/lessons/249-Creating-a-Password-Field
> >
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
> Blue Mango Learning Systems
> www.bluemangolearning.com    -    www.screensteps.com
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