i´ve tested on my debian and any of the passwordChars that i've set makes difference...
________________________________ William de Oliveira Ferreira Bacharel em Sistemas de Informação 2011/8/10 William Oliveira Ferreira <[email protected]> > But that code runs under GTK2 and i have this problem on Windows Seven Home > Basic (Where i tested), at night (now here is 05:28 PM) i'll test it on > my Debian 6/Gnome 2 > ________________________________ > > William de Oliveira Ferreira > Bacharel em Sistemas de Informação > > > > 2011/8/10 Gerard Visent <[email protected]> > >> Hi Martin, >> >>> >>> Hm, on my system 158 results in a "z" with some tilde or accent. >>> >> >> Same here. >> >> >>> >>> But that is probably the correct behaviour. >>> >>> For some reason the PassWordchar field accepts an ansi char, rather than >>> a utf8 char. So what you will see depends on the codepage of the system on >>> which your app is run. Even if it displays fine on your PC, if you ship the >>> app, other people will see other chars. >>> >>> How or why it becomes an * I do not know... >>> >> >> I found why, but I can't explain the reason behind the code. >> In lcl/interfaces/gtk2/gtk2wsstdctrls : >> >> class procedure TGtk2WSCustomEdit.SetPasswordChar( >> const ACustomEdit: TCustomEdit; NewChar: char); >> var >> PWChar: Integer; >> Entry: PGtkEntry; >> begin >> if not WSCheckHandleAllocated(ACustomEdit, 'SetPasswordChar') then >> Exit; >> Entry := PGtkEntry(ACustomEdit.Handle); >> if ACustomEdit.EchoMode=emNone then >> PWChar:=0 >> else begin >> PWChar:=ord(ACustomEdit.PasswordChar); >> if (PWChar<192) or (PWChar=ord('*')) then >> PWChar:=9679; >> end; >> gtk_entry_set_invisible_char(Entry,PWChar); >> end; >> >> Commenting the following lines >> >> if (PWChar<192) or (PWChar=ord('*')) then >> PWChar:=9679; >> >> allows to display any char. But there must be a reason for this check and >> whoever wrote didn't bother writing a comment. >> >> Regards, >> >> Gerard. >> >> >> >>> >>> -- >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Lazarus mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus >>> >>> >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> Lazarus mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus >> >> >
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