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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. Rob Berendt ================== A smart person learns from their mistakes, but a wise person learns from OTHER peoples mistakes. Reynolds Chris <chris.reynolds@consultant. To: "'rpg400-l@midrange.com'" <rpg400-l@midrange.com> volvo.com> cc: Sent by: Fax to: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com Subject: RE: Enter password but show '*' 09/12/2001 07:56 AM Please respond to rpg400-l Why on earth would you want to do that ? -----Original Message----- From: Mike Sheldon [mailto:sheldon_mike@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: 12 September 2001 13:48 To: rpg400-l@midrange.com Subject: Enter password but show '*' Hi All, The question is: I would like to enter a Password into the screen. But for every character entered, rather than the field be 'Non display', can it show an Asterisk for every character ? Good luck ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l. _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
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