Re: Password input
Re: Password input
- Subject: Re: Password input
- From: garrett <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 02:59:21 -0500
Sometime 'round 04/22/2002 09:15 PM, Stephen Swift at
email@hidden described:
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At 4/22/02 2:58 PM, Pepino (email@hidden) Wrote:
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> I've searched the archives but cannot find this. How do you set a dialog to
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> display characters (like bullets) other then those typed. This would be for a
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> password input. I want to use the password for something I am doing but want
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> it entered in more securely.
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> set passinput to display dialog "Please enter your password" default answer
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> ""
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> set hideme to text returned of passinput
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You cannot create a password field with regular AppleScript. You need to
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use the scripting addition "Dialog Director" which you can get at
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http://www.osaxen.com. There are examples included with this scripting
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addition that show you how to create password fields. This is a really fun
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scripting addition. HTH
for the record DD does NOT work in OS X... in case u are using OS X.
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garrett
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