On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Thomas R. Stevenson wrote:
> I'm writing a tcl(7.6)/tk(4.2) script using vt(1.07), and I need an
> non-printing Entry widget so that a user can enter a password without
> it being displayed to the screen. I've looked through the book "Tcl
> and the Tk Toolkit" by John K. Ousterhout (Fifth print, July 95), but
> I can't find anything that can be used to create a non-printing Entry
> widget.
>
> Is it possible to create a non-printing Entry widget with
> tcl(7.6)/tk(4.2) & vt(1.07)? If so how? Thanks!
Certainly. You are looking for the "-show" option to the entry
widget. Within Visual Tcl, use the attribute editor to set
"show" to the character you wish to use for the "mask".
-stewart-
