Yes you should be able to, however you are not. There is no constructor for PasswordTextBox that takes in a TextBox. I ended up just using getElement and setting the attribute directly.
textBox.getElement().setAttribute("type", "password"); On Jul 29, 3:17 pm, Gal Dolber <gal.dol...@gmail.com> wrote: > From a code and css points of view they are exactly the same. You should be > able to change from TextBox to PasswordTextBox without changing anything. > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Ben Munge <ben.mu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a requirement to turn some financial fields into masked fields > > and I wanted to use the password input type to simplify the logic. I > > need to be able to change a TextBox to a PasswordTextBox and have it > > change the value in the box to circles without affecting the value or > > style of the element. I'm having trouble finding a good way to do this > > as TextBox does not let you modify the type property. Any advice/help > > would be greatly appreciated. > > > Thanks! > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > > To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- > Guit: Elegant, beautiful, modular and *production ready* gwt applications. > > http://code.google.com/p/guit/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.