I confirm there is a bug in Jwdp (all j.jar front ends) treatment of es_password. This has been fixed. I am not sure if the fix will be provided as a new j.jar you can use to update 601, or as part of a bug level fix for 601, or in 602.

How urgent is this fix urgent for you?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorin Lund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Programming forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:21 PM
Subject: [Jprogramming] Password edit box on Macintosh - changes the data


When I use the es_password style on an edit box in the Windows version of J it presents stars in place of letters in the edit field but gives me the clear text
of what was entered in the edit box.

I've taken a very small application from Windows to Mac. The es_password style gives me stars in the edit box. But the string I get is not what I typed. My first thought was that it might be an encryption of what is typed in the password edit box. But typing the same string on 3 successive attempts gives
3 different 'encryptions'.

The following is the entire definition of my dialog box:

pc pw;
xywh 7 14 51 12;cc pweb edit es_password;
pas 6 6;pcenter;
rem form end;


pw_pweb_button:
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
?3?:? if. 'mypassword' -: pweb do. ?
? ? ? wd 'pclose' ?
? ? ? main '' ?
? ? ? else. ?
? ? ? if. 91 67 64 100 102 51 51 97 101 -: a. i. pweb do.?
? ? ? wdinfo 'encrypt match' ?
? ? ? wd 'pclose' ?
? ? ? main '' ?
? ? ? else. ?
? ? ?echo a. i. pweb ?
? ? ? wdinfo '** pbbt!!' ?
? ? ? wd 'pclose' ?
? ? ? end. ?
? ? ? end. ?
? ? ?NB. (2!:55) 0 ?
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

I get a different set of values from the
echo a. i. pweb
line every time I try it. Even though I am typing the same password each time.
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