RE: non print chars for password's

[Scott Mildenberger <Smildenber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One way to do it is to put a constant field right below your input field of
all hyphens: '----'.  This sort of gives the appearance of an input field,
although there is half a line of space between the cursor and the hypens
below.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Beck [SMTP:CBeck@good-sam.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 8:27 AM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: non print chars for password's
> 
> Well the thing is it is the last four digits of the employee's social
> security number.  So every one knows how long they are and what they are
> if the know someone elses SSN,  (not my idea).  It is nothing highly
> confidential, just how much vacation time they have and the like.      
> 
> The reason for wanting to see it is Users in the field (are stupid)  they
> don't have a clue how to use a keyboard and the arrow keys or anything.
> so they want to at least see where they are typing. to avoid less
> confusion.
> 
> 
> >>> buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com 02/16/00 08:12AM >>>
> Chris Beck wrote:
> >I have a password that I need to at least have the line 
> >show up under it.  or I would like to have stars print 
> >when the user presses a key.
> 
> Normally a non-display field doesn't show anything, not even an underline.
> If you set DSPATR(ND UL) the ND supercedes the UL and you see...nothing.
> The idea is that if you want to keep the password a secret, why tell
> everybody looking at the screen how long it is?  It sounds as if you need
> to
> emulate some PC program functionality.  Perhaps you can write the
> front-end
> as a Visual RPG/Basic/C/Java application and have it communicate to the
> AS/400 to get/put the data?
> 
> Buck
> 
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