matts@microsoft.UUCP (Matt SAETTLER) (05/29/90)
In article <102@bohra.cpg.oz> ejp@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Esmond Pitt) writes:
]I asked this a while ago but apparently it didn't get transmitted upstream.
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]Is it possible to accept input without echo (e.g. password fields) under:
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] (1) MS-Windows
] (2) PM
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]and if so, how?
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]Thanks for your help.
Windows 3.0 defines the edit control attribute ES_PASSWORD. I believe
that this replace typed characters with '*' in the display.
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Matt Saettler I speak for myself, or so I'm told.williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams) (05/30/90)
In article <102@bohra.cpg.oz> ejp@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Esmond Pitt) writes: >I asked this a while ago but apparently it didn't get transmitted upstream. > >Is it possible to accept input without echo (e.g. password fields) under: > > (1) MS-Windows > (2) PM > >and if so, how? > I know <0 about programming for (1) or (2), but if you don't have a no-echo option on input, you can set the foreground and background colors the same. This is a trick I started using on CP/M 80 machines! -- Kent Williams 'Look, I can understand "teenage mutant ninja williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu turtles", but I can't understand "mutually williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu recursive inline functions".' - Paul Chisholm
gdk@hpindda.HP.COM (Gary Koerzendorfer) (06/01/90)
williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams) writes: > In article <102@bohra.cpg.oz> ejp@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Esmond Pitt) writes: > >Is it possible to accept input without echo (e.g. password fields) under: > > > > (1) MS-Windows Check out "subclassing" in an MS-Windows book, specifically the call "SetWindowLong". You don't want to echo anything, not even a dummy char, because this would reveal the length of the password. > ... you can set the foreground and background colors the same. This is a clever trick! In X it's subject to being overridden unless you explicitly set the colors in the code, rather than the resource file. I think I'd rather do it 'right', however, just in case. hphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphphp Gary Koerzendorfer gdk@hpda.hp.com Hewlett-Packard (408) 447-2231 indindindindindindindindindindindindindindindindindindindindindindindindindind