Yeah, you can grab keyDownEvents and test each one, but this way you have
some extra control over it for filtering unwanted keyDownEvents and
encryption...besides that, you can also filter out unwanted keys much
easier. I noticed that this was answered, however, while I was laid up
with the flu yesterday, so don't mind me...
>Yes, I see. Is there a way to interact with the grafitti area/
>keyboard? Like if you want to do 'real' alnum password ... :)
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nesse, Rustin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 11:12 PM
>> To: Palm Developer Forum
>> Subject: RE: #### password Field Resource
>>
>>
>> I've done it all in one form handler. What I do is to put together
>> a form with one field on the top, and then put together a number of
>> push buttons (with the same control group, and each labeled by it's
>> key...I usually make it resemble a qwerty layout to keep it simple...
>> obviously you'd need to make several if you want to support different
>> language fonts, like Arabic/Hebrew/Kanji/etc.). Then in my event
>> handler, I have each button respond to a push event like so:
>>
>> if( event->data.ctlEnter.controlID == PwEntryOnePushButton )
>> {
>> StrCat( InternalNumber, "1" ); // Store the actual value
>> StrCat( Echo, "*" ); // Add another
>> placeholder to the
>> // echo
>> out string
>> SetFieldTextFromStr( OutputOut1Field, Echo ); // Echo
>> out the string
>>
>> // using the nifty
>>
>> // string output functions
>>
>> // from the manual.
>> }
>>
>> And so on with each key. Obviously, if you do a backspace,
>> you have to
>> check to see if the string is empty, etc. It's not too hard,
>> but it is
>> a bit tedious. Still, it's really user friendly.
>>
>> Echo is the string that holds the echoed string,
>InternalNumber is the
>> number that the person is actually entering, etc. Fairly
>> straightforward.
>> =)
>>
>> -Rus
>>
>> >Could you point us to any examples? (Post it in private if
>> >necessary :)
>> >
>> >Kind regards,
>> >Brian "Another One Interested in *'s"
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Nesse, Rustin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> >> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 10:52 PM
>> >> To: Palm Developer Forum
>> >> Subject: RE: #### password Field Resource
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Yep. You can do it by making my own little keypad, and echoing *
>> >> or # out to the field, while storing or encrypting the
>data as you
>> >> go. With each letter/button pressed, I reupdate the string in the
>> >> field.
>> >>
>> >> -Rus
>> >>
>> >> >-----Original Message-----
>> >> >From: Bruno Galvao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> >> >Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 1:48 PM
>> >> >To: Palm Developer Forum
>> >> >Subject: #### password Field Resource
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >Hi,
>> >> >anyone could tell me whether it�s possible to make a
>> normal Field UI
>> >> >component act like those fields that replace the characters
>> >> >typed with the
>> >> >character '#' in order to hide the password being typed ?!
>> >> >
>> >> >Thanks
>> >> >
>> >> >
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