Hmm, when you start BEA Weblogic without a password on the command line it manages to suppress the echo, but I have no idea how it does it.
I guess you would have to redirect System.out/System.err temporarily. That can get quite messy. The Swing/AWT approach is good, provided you know there is a GUI available (i.e. not much good if you're running a Telnet session without an X-display somewhere) Keith -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bodewig@;apache.org] Sent: 06 November 2002 12:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hiding input variable.. On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Soer J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to hide the typing ? No, you cannot reliably suppress characters while reading from System.in in Java at all. There are workarounds like echoing backspace characters like mad, but it doesn't really work. Writing an AWT InputHandler and using a TextField with the echoChar set (or Swing and JPasswordField) would work, though. Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:ant-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:ant-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:ant-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:ant-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
