I am leaving for the airport.  I will have to find it.  It is in the Kernel
Systems Manager documentation or the new Kernel programmer documentation.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Woodhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] How do I do a silent read?


> What API do you have in mind? The XGF utilities?
>
> Incidentally, here's some code I wrote to allow a user to enter "^" to
> interrupt a running process that's busy writing dots to the keyboard.
> It's not exactly what you want, but it shows how to read input one
> character at a time in a SAC compliant way and also turn echo on/off.
> (The lock statements are a kludge and shouldn't be needed.)
>
>
> WSTUP  ; setup
>        ;K DTOUT ;in case it is defined
>        S CSLTMP=$NA(^XTMP("CSLVEN"_MID))
>        D INITKB^XGF("*")
>        X ^%ZOSF("EOFF")
>        S TIMER=0,DELTA=1,DONE=0
>        S:+$G(TTW)'>0 TTW=DTIME
> WLOOP    ;
>        S YCHR=$$READ^XGF(1,1)
>        ;R YCHR#1:1
>        ;S:$G(YCHR)["^" DONE=1
>        I '$D(DTOUT) S:$G(YCHR)="^" DONE=1
>        L [EMAIL PROTECTED]@(0):0
>        L [EMAIL PROTECTED]@(0)
>        G:'$D(@CSLTMP@(0)) WLOOP2
>        L [EMAIL PROTECTED]@(0):0
>        S X=$P(@CSLTMP@(0),"^",3)
>        S:+X>0 DONE=1
>        S:+X>0 @CSLTMP@("TIMEFOUND")=$$NOW^XLFDT
>        L [EMAIL PROTECTED]@(0)
>        G:DONE WCLN
> WLOOP2  ;
>        D:IO=IO(0)
>        .W ". " ;a 1 sec. wait is built into the # read
>        .;W:TIMER#2=0 ". "
>        S:$D(DTOUT) YCHR=""
>        S:YCHR["^" X=0
>        G:YCHR["^" WCLN
>        H DELTA
>        S TIMER=TIMER+DELTA
>        S:TIMER'<TTW X=0  ;timeout
>        G:TIMER'<TTW WCLN
>        G WLOOP
>        Q
> WCLN   ;
>        D RESETKB^XGF
>        X ^%ZOSF("EON")
>        Q $G(X)
>
> --- steven mcphelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Why not just use the Kernel API for this purpose?
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Kevin Toppenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Hardhats Sourceforge" <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 11:13 PM
> > Subject: [Hardhats-members] How do I do a silent read?
> >
> >
> > > Hey all,
> > >
> > > I want to ask for a password, and echo *'s
> > >
> > > How do I do this?
> > >
> > > I.e.
> > > for i=1:1:8 read *S write "*"
> > >
> > > gives:
> > > a*b*c*d*e*f*g*h*
> > >
> > > How do I hide the letters?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Kevin
> > >
> > > P.S., what I really want to do is to compare the
> > > user's input to the electronic signiture code stored
> > > in the ELECTRONIC SIGNITURE CODE in file 200.  Is
> > > there a Fileman way of doing this?  I just want to
> > > ensure that the user knows the password.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Kevin
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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