hsu@locus.com (Mike S. C. Hsu) (11/06/90)
Does anybody has the experience or ideas of using motif widgets to implement a text input window in non-echo mode? My intention is to build a login dialog window using motif. The non-echo mode is necessary when user type in their password. I tryed using motif Text widget with foreground equal to background; it does disappear the text but with the unwanted side effect of disappearing the text cursor too. Any suggestion? Also, does anybody knows if the Motif 1.1 would support non-echo mode in their Text widget? It'd be very disappointing if it doesn't because the OSF claims that the Motif 1.1 will be suite for real world applications. Thanks in advance! --Mike
nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) (11/06/90)
> Also, does anybody knows if the Motif 1.1 would support non-echo mode in > their Text widget? It'd be very disappointing if it doesn't because the OSF > claims that the Motif 1.1 will be suite for real world applications. Motif (or any other toolkit) will never provide everything that every application needs. That doesn't mean you can't write a real-world application. That's the reason that Motif was based on the Intrinsics - so when it doesn't do something you need you can add new functionality yourself without having to have the source code (of course a few more docs would help :-). Use modifyVerifyCallback and set doit to False. Live with the beep at 1.0, at 1.1 you can turn it off.