RE: Enter password but show '*'

Dunno, I never looked at them. <g>  I suspect DSM might work, but you'd have
to trick it into the "Text Assist" feature used by office vision (probably
not there anymore) that captures all keyboard events in real-time.  Standard
5250 IO completely ignores the cursor and backspace keys so far as capturing
the keystrokes.  I know PC5250 still supports key mappings for all the
special keyboard functions, including "Character Backspace".  I really
haven't visited this topic for a couple of years.....

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Sr. Programmer/Analyst
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 4:11 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Enter password but show '*'



On this issue I may not know what I am talking about, but what about the
Dynamic Screen API's?

Rob Berendt

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Sort of possible, but rendered impractical by a major flaw.  One could
define a 1A input non-display with automatic record advance and an output
field 10A (or whatever you need).  In operation, each character typed is
sent to your program, captured, and an '*' concatted to the end of the
outfield.  The problem is mistakes. Backspace cannot be captured directly
and without it, there's no real way to correct mistakes.  Another key could
be substituted for backspace (i.e.. backslash), but the users would not
find
the interface intuitive.

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Sr. Programmer/Analyst
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
From: Njal Fisketjon [mailto:n.f@figu.no]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 2:59 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Enter password but show '*'


Rob Berendt wrote:

> Probably because every gui application which prompts for a password does
> this and the users have gotten used to this to see if they've fat
fingered
> an extra character.
>

It would allow a person looking count the number of characters in your
password.
BTW Lotus Notes doesn't do this (it randomly adds some characters).

This is not possible on the AS/400 since it would require that you
reprogrammed the
workstation controller to echo each character as it was typed.


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