Question about "that thing you key in that's not a user name when you're logging in"

[Peter Haworth]

That's the one I went with. I might adapt it to show each character briefly
before hiding it and/or provide an option to show it in plain text.

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 7:19 PM J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
wrote:

> On 12/29/2015 6:33 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> > I know there is an "ask thing" command that will replace the thing with
> > black dots as it is being typed in but is there some way to do that
> using a
> > regular field?
>
> Here is my favorite approach:
>
> <
> http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/custom-password-dialogue-tp290635p290644.html
> >
>
> After I read Bill Marriott's solution, I adopted it forever after. It
> requires almost no work at all and takes advantage of LC's built-in text
> handling. Very easy.
>
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