I responded to this very topic awhile back. There should be plenty of
approaches in the archives.
The easiest way for this whole thing to be done by a user is to make
a simple, onscreen keypad, and echo '*'s to a text field while saving
the values represented by the keypad buttons to a separate string.
The programmer would have to deal with the issue of the user entering
Graffiti strokes or using the system keypad separately. (I wrote a
ton on this, which inspired some spirited debate awhile back)
-Rus
>Man, what is up with this topic??? It's suddenly become very
>popular. Not only
>is there this posting, but I got one privately from someone
>else while this
>forum was down, and there's a thread going on in pilot.programmer on
>news.massena.com ("Password field", by "Karl").
>
>Personally, I think this UI is not well thought out. Entering
>text with Grafitti
>is error prone, and trying to enter it blindly even more so. I
>think that
>someone on the pilot.programmer thread proposed an alternate approach.
>
>-- Keith
>
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>"William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/22/2000 02:29:10 PM
>
>Please respond to "Palm Developer Forum"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Sent by: "William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>cc: (Keith Rollin/US/PALM)
>Subject: Is Password input available on Palm?
>
>
>
>Hi, I'd like to write an application which has a field on
>screen. When user
>inputs characters, the field is shown as "***". I searched the
>Palm SDK doc
>but didn't find any API function.
>
>Can any one give me some clues about it?
>
>Thanks a lot.
>
>--
>Regards,
>
>William Xi
>Developer
>Sona Innovations Inc.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.SonaInnovations.com
>Phone:416-866-7477
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