On 11/16/2018 12:32 PM, Scorby, Gary wrote:
We have been using the login dialog that comes with pywin32 for over a
decade. Works great.
We have a client who until recently required a 4 character max user
ID. Now they want an option for up to a 19 character user ID. I told
them no problem, that should work. One of their user decided to go
for it and set their password to 19 characters on their server, then
tried to log in via the login box. They claimed only 14 characters
will fit in the User ID entry window. Really?
So I ran some tests. I held down the ‘a’ key for user ID and ‘b’ key
for password. Result:
('aaaaaaaaaaaaaa', 'bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb')
User ID – 14 characters
PW – 21 characters
Then I decided to go skinny and held the i key for both. Result:
('iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii', 'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii')
User ID – 42 characters
PW – 21 characters
I’m a data mover and very seldom work with dialogs. The restriction
appears to be entry window size based on character width. I assumed
if there was any kind of a restriction it would be x number of
characters. I’ve looked at how I send could parameters to alter this
behavior but don’t see anything. Feel free to verbally abuse me if
I’m missing the obvious, but can anyone tell me how to expand the
number of characters I can send for a user ID?
Thank you
Gary
One thing that might be semi-obvious is that while you can _see_ a
different number of characters depending on their size, it might not be
the case that only 14 characters can be accepted in the box... I'm
speculating you just might have to scroll (with the cursor key) to see
them all. When you do the same character, that is not so obvious that
there is scrolling going on. If you use different characters, I'm
thinking you might see them scroll. Your user might have stopped because
the end of the box was reached, and not tried to type the last 5 characters?
Anyway, something to think about and experiment with. I've no idea if
it is possible to make that dialog box wider, so that more characters
can be seen.
Glenn
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