When I was a Junior programmer I wrote pretty much the same piece of code.
Unfortunately the users hated it!
For the sake of displaying something when they typed a password they
lost the ability to correct typing mistakes.
Because with INPUT,1 the Backspace key doesn't work!
So I had to go back to the drawing board and eventually ended up writing
a Line Editor ;-).
On 17/08/2011 18:15, nschroth wrote:
Thanks for all the suggestions. I went with a variation, using ECHO OFF/ON
and and specific screen position for the input. Had problems detecting
CHAR(13). Learned that INPUT @ screws up things, so utilized the CRT@ for
positioning. I'll look into adding backspace handling next. Here is what I
ended up with:
PROMPT ''
INCHAR='X'
PASSWD=''
CRT @(0,5):'Enter Password: ':
ECHO OFF
POS=16
LOOP UNTIL INCHAR=''
CRT @(POS,5):
INPUT INCHAR,1:
PASSWD:=INCHAR
CRT @(POS,5):'*'
POS+=1
REPEAT
ECHO ON
Israel, John R. wrote:
That's actually pretty good!
John Israel
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Dayton Superior Corporation
1125 Byers Road
Miamisburg, OH 45342
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Mark Eastwood
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 3:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [U2] Simple Masking of Password Input (Universe Basic)
Just a quick sample
PROMPT ''
PW=''
ECHO OFF
LOOP
INPUT X,1:
IF X = '' THEN EXIT
IF X THEN PRINT '*':
PW := X
REPEAT
ECHO ON
PRINT
PRINT PW
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Subject: [U2] Simple Masking of Password Input (Universe Basic)
Does anyone have a simple routine for entering a password and only
displaying an asterisk for the character entered?
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