That approach would work perfectly fine - unless someone somehow entered a
valid character and saw the result, suddenly and horribly discovering the
cheap truth. ;) Also, boxes look really crappy. Dots (or stars even) look
much, much better.
- Matthew
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Stringer
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 5:56 AM
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Subject: Re: Masking text in a field
>Subject: Re: Masking text in a field
>From: Dana Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 11:09:28 -0400
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>Matt,
>
>Disappointing but good advice. Now I have to figure out how to disable
>the features I don't want to support. I'm assuming I need to handle
>events that: 1. move the insertion point and 2. allow text selection
>(maybe the 2nd is covered by the 1st).
Perhaps you could use a standard font that doesn't support standard
characters, such as one of the symbol fonts (like "symbol7Font") and all the
characters should appear as the default character, a rectangle.
Disclaimer: I haven't tried this approach. It is all theory.
Roger Stringer
Marietta Systems, Inc. (www.mariettasystems.com)
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