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- From: de19@umail.umd.edu (Dana S Emery)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Password entry in a dialog
- Message-ID: <de19-240792040602@mac43-pg2.umd.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 08:13:28 GMT
- References: <1992Jul10.133438.20407@sobeco.com> <28473@goofy.Apple.COM>
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- In article <28473@goofy.Apple.COM>, dwb@apple.com (David W. Berry) wrote:
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- > Simplest approach I've seen is to create a FONT with nothing but bullet's
- > in it and use it for the font for the TERec. Saves all kind's of hassles
- > and kludges and works almost anywhere.
-
- Unfortunatly, spaces are not printed from the FONT/NFNT, so they will not
- echo as a bullet. I discovered this the hard way while developing a 'show
- invisibles' capability, and decided to use sicns for the invisibles in
- stead of a private font. Since some passwords allow space as a character,
- this is not a foolproof technique.
-
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- Dana S Emery <de19@umail.umd.edu>
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