Robert Moynihan wrote: > He probably meant "concat the chars" into a hidden character buffer > somewhere, THEN replace them in the field string. Bob.
In that case, what happens when the user enters 3 or 4 characters, realizes they've made a mistake, then selects all the asterisks in the field and hits backspace, then starts over? The hidden character buffer will then be out of sync with what's really in the field. But the user has entered the password correctly, and yet when they hit the "Login" button (or whatever), it doesn't work. Then starts fresh (or so they think) by erasing the field (drag select everything then hit backspace), then enters the password again, and it *still* doesn't work. For the shadow character buffer method to work, you have to either find a way to track everything that can happen to the field, or you need to somehow disable features of fields like cutting and pasting text. - Logan -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
