ask password - paste not supported

[rodneyt]

Just a note that the ask password dialog is in need of some work.

Currently it does not support user pasting passwords into the dialog. As these days many (most ?) people store passwords in password managers like 1password, so copy/paste to login is normal.

If you paste into the dialog it will (a) paste in plaintext (instead of hidden text) and (b) the it result will be empty.

Obviously there are plenty of alternatives (ie don't use ask password), but since this dialog exists it should work properly....

~ Rodney

[FourthWorld]

Agreed. I would flag that as a bug.

It might been have been caught earlier, but it's rare to ask for a password without also asking for login, and we have no built-in dialog for both.

[rodneyt]

I will eliminate it. I was just surprised as ask password form has been around for yonks. I guess it shows it isn't used much....

~ Rodney

[FourthWorld]

What we really need is a password field for desktop like we have for mobile. Maybe I'll make a behavior script for that in my copious free time.

[rodneyt]

Agree. This is something basic we need.

[FourthWorld]

I've been tempted to write a behavior library for "smart fields", to address things missing in LC but common elsewhere, like this password option, input filters for types like phone numbers and email addresses, CSS3-style input prompts, display options for rendering numbers as currency and other formats, etc.

But the bad news/good news is that things have been too busy here in my office to have time for things like that.

I've been surprised by how readily LC devs consider it normal to have to script every little thing like this, while so many other environments - even the modern web - make those much simpler.

Polyglots like you, Trevor, Ken Ray, etc. see the need, but this audience is surprisingly patient about reinventing common wheels.