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Michael Gross-4

Masking Characters

Hi,

On an input field with sensitive information I want to mask the actual value.

I only want the value masked when it is displayed not when it is being entered.

Setting the type of this input field to password is not giving me exactly what I want.

If anyone has some ideas on this I would like to hear them……………..!

Thanks!

Mike

Vassili Bykov

Re: Masking Characters

You don't explain how entering is differentiated from displaying, but
one solution is creating two identical input fields hooked up to the
same value holder, one regular the other password, and showing or hiding
one or the other as needed. You may need to micro-manage the keyboard
focus to preserve the illusion of a single widget, but that again
depends on how the display mode is switched.

Michael Gross wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> On an input field with sensitive information I want to mask the actual
> value.
>
> I only want the value masked when it is displayed not when it is being
> entered.
>
> Setting the type of this input field to password is not giving me
> exactly what I want.
>
>
>
> If anyone has some ideas on this I would like to hear
> them……………..!
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
>
>
>

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Karsten Kusche

Re: Masking Characters

you can also do like pgp does and add a checkbox to switch the state of
an inputfield from seeing the content and hiding the content. you can
use that checkbox to explicit switch between both inputfields.

on the other hand you may just set the content of that field to
xxxxxxxx, regardless of what value should be shown and when the user
edits it, then he can enter text the normal way.

good luck
Karsten

Vassili Bykov wrote:

> You don't explain how entering is differentiated from displaying, but
> one solution is creating two identical input fields hooked up to the
> same value holder, one regular the other password, and showing or
> hiding one or the other as needed. You may need to micro-manage the
> keyboard focus to preserve the illusion of a single widget, but that
> again depends on how the display mode is switched.
>
>
> Michael Gross wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> On an input field with sensitive information I want to mask the
>> actual value.
>>
>> I only want the value masked when it is displayed not when it is
>> being entered.
>>
>> Setting the type of this input field to password is not giving me
>> exactly what I want.
>>
>>
>>
>> If anyone has some ideas on this I would like to
>> hear them……………..!
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>
>

Terry Raymond

RE: Masking Characters

In reply to this post by Michael Gross-4

Mike

If I understand you properly, you might be able to do this by providing

the proper print converter. The print converter will convert the characters

for display prior to and after field entry.

Terry

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From: Michael Gross [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:02 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Masking Characters

Hi,

On an input field with sensitive information I want to mask the actual value.

I only want the value masked when it is displayed not when it is being entered.

Setting the type of this input field to password is not giving me exactly what I want.

If anyone has some ideas on this I would like to hear them……………..!

Thanks!

Mike