Re: EDM text control for password entry

["Steve Kinder" <steve@dsoft-solutions.co.uk>]

Thanks to John and Kevin for the help, particularly John. The font change 
suggestion worked fine but I do prefer the * solution. After some further 
help from John, getting around my failure to make edm properly, it now works 
fine.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Sinclair" <sinclairjw@ornl.gov>
To: "Steve Kinder" <steve@dsoft-solutions.co.uk>
Cc: "epics" <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: EDM text control for password entry


> Steve,
>
> I made a quick modification and attached 3 files on the web site at
> http://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/edm/log/show.php?mon=Jan&theDay=30&year=2009
>
> They show up under the "Attachments" heading on the left side of the page 
> near the bottom.
>
> I am not releasing a new version at the moment so you may download these 
> files, replace the ones in your current distribution, and rebuild.
>
> A new field called "Password Input" may be checked to get the new 
> behavior. The control must be editable, associated with a string pv, and a 
> motif widget. Let me know if the changes meet your requirements.
>
> John
>
> Steve Kinder wrote:
> > Creating a GUI with EDM. Would like to allow entry of a password, 
> > currently using a text control. Seems no way to have the text control 
> > just display say * for each character. It has been some time since I did 
> > X/Motif programming, but I seem to remember that was possible via the 
> > text widgets. Any help on achieving this in edm please?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Steve