Just to toss in my own $0.02...
If you are going to bother with this, you will need to block the virtual
keyboard, & (possibly) write your own, since you can't intercept its
keystrokes until the user finishes with it, rendering the mask technique
inoperable...
on 9/21/01 12:15, P. Alan Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Consider this. Normally password fields are echo'd back with some masking
> character (* for instance) so one cannot peak over and easily see the
> password. Since you are holding the device, this generally would not be the
> case. Also, if you key in something wrong in Graffiti, how would you know if
> the characters are masked?
>
> In other words, why bother? Enter the password and be done with it. See the
> Network panel under Prefs for a nice password example.
>
> Just my opinion.
>
> Alan
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
>> Prasanth S B
>> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 9:54 AM
>> To: Palm Developer Forum
>> Subject: password doubt
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi friends,
>> For my palm project, I have a text field which takes the
>> password. But in text field, the characters
>> We type will be echoed. Do we have any simple method for echoing
>> asterisks(*) in a text field. By taking
>> Keydown event and using setText() is a difficult task. Do we have a simple
>> way of doing this?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Prasanth.S.B.
>>
>>
>>
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