Password Field

[Dan Friedman]

Yves,

Thanks!  That works great.  Don't you just love this list?!!!




>> Good morning!
>> 
>> Does anyone have a routine for typing in a field and displaying
>> bullets -
>> but preserving the text?  As if it was a password field.  I am making
>> a user
>> login window with "Username" and "Password" fields.  Don't you think
>> the
>> "password" field should display bullets (or asterisks)? I could write
>> it
>> myself... But I figured someone out there has done this already. :)
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Dan


> I have in my main stack a field named "Pass"  with this script in the
> fld
> 
> 
> local thisPassword
> on returninfield
>  get thisPassword
>  if it is <whatever>" then
>    go to stack <whatever>
>  else
>    answer "Invalid password !"
>  end if
>  close this stack
> end returninfield
> 
> on enterinfield
>  returninfield
> end enterinfield
> 
> on keydown whichKey
>   put whichKey after thisPassword
>  put "*" after field "pass" --asterisk or whatever another char you
> want
> end keyDown
> 
> on backspaceKey
>  put empty into field "pass"
>  put "" into thisPassword
> end backspaceKey
> 
> on deleteKey
>  put empty into field "pass"
>  put "" into thisPassword
> end deleteKey