a rant about password fields

[karmacomposer]

In almost every language i can think of there is a switch or command to hide the text with dots or asterisks but keep the text intact. As far as I can see with livecode no such functionality exists. I wish runrev would address this.

What do you think?

Mike

[mwieder]

Nothing makes my day like a good rant once in a while <g>

Check out the "ask password" feature in the dictionary if you can live with a separate dialog window for password input. Otherwise, check out the password field control in my PowerTools stack (there's a demo version on revOnline), or just put a script into a normal field control that checks for keyUp and rawKeyup and does the right thing, storing the actual input text in a variable or a custom property or some other such trick.

[WaltBrown]

I need to find my old copy of Racter...