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- From: ffang@newsuiowa.edu (Francis Fang)
- Subject: Re: nul font?
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.220116.4190@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:01:16 GMT
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- gasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Nathan Gasser ><>) writes:
- :
- : In article <1992Aug25.032959.9437@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> steven@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Steve Stergakis) writes:
- : >
- : > i am currently working under hypercard 2.1... and am trying to
- : >imitate the passwd fields on the system and employee & department
- : >stacks...
- : >
- : >the problem is [...problem deleted...]
- :
- : The easiest way to do this in HC2.1 is with the "ask password" command:
- :
- : on mouseUp
- : ask password "What's the password?"
- : if it is "shoelace" then ...
- : ..
- : end mouseUp
- :
- : This will cause all the characters typed in the "ask" box to be bullets.
- :
- : Not the solution you were aiming at, but I hope it does what you need.
- :
- : >thanks in advance
- : >steven
- :
- : Nate.
- :
- : --
- :
- : Nathan Gasser ><>
- : gasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
- :
-
- The above works great except that you have to be careful as the above
- solution also encodes the user's response to the ask password prompt
- into some numbers.
-
- Depending on what you are doing, you may not want the user's response to
- be encrypted. In my case, I did not want this encryption and I ended up
- creating my own font which had all the keyboard characters mapped to
- bullets.
-
- Perhaps if someone could explain how to decrypt the response to ask
- password?
-
-