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- From: sold@kit.uni-kl.de (Christoph Sold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Dialog box TEdit character trapping.
- Message-ID: <sold.53.713824293@kit.uni-kl.de>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 20:31:33 GMT
- References: <46293@shamash.cdc.com>
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- In article <46293@shamash.cdc.com> ldh@svl.cdc.com (Lawrence D. Hare) writes:
- >Subject: Dialog box TEdit character trapping.
- >From: ldh@svl.cdc.com (Lawrence D. Hare)
- >Date: 10 Aug 92 21:38:58 GMT
- >Given a dialog box which contains, amongst other stuff, a TextEdit item,
- >how can I trap characters typed by the user while under the enspiring
- >auspices of the dialog manager?
- >
- >The application here is the age old one of password entry. Given that
- >there is no password on file, throw up a dialog requesting one.
- >Characters typed by the user are displayed with a blob for security.
- >The actual character is retained by the application for use as the
- >password.
- >
- >I can see doing this with TextEdit, but I would like to use the
- >simplicity of the dialog manager. Any ideas as to how this can be done?
- >
- >--
- >Lawrence D. Hare Control Data - Silicon Valley Operations
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- >ldh@svl.cdc.com Mail: SVLa60 FAX: (408) 496-4106
-
- Lawrence,
-
- check Inside Macintosh, every chapter of Dialog Manager, and guess what?
- there is a filter function for ModalDialog. That's easy, huh?
-
- -Christoph
-
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