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- From: Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@cs.stanford.edu>
- Subject: Re: Blobs for passwords, a la AppleShare login
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- Thanks to everyone who replied. The concensus is clearly to use a Dialog
- Filter routine to trap KeyDown events for that field, record the
- character elsewhere, and pass on an opt-8 character to be displayed.
-
- Sample code is available in the Usenet Mac Programmer's Guide (on sumex),
- by anon ftp from ftp.apple.com (130.43.2.3) in
- /ftp/dts/mac/sc/snippets/toolbox.iac/other, and in "Macintosh Programming
- Secrets" by Keith Rollin and Scott Knaster.
-
- Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@cs.stanford.edu>
- * Liliore Green Rains Houses Resident Computer Coordinator
- * Stanford Distributed Systems Group Research Assistant
- * Macintosh Programmer
-