Field type Password

[trenatos]

Just a small one, but it would be nice to have a checkbox to turn a text field into a password box, no more fiddling with doing that manually.

[andrewferguson]

I certainly agree with this request. No matter how hard I try, I can never make my password fields look like they should.

[Da_Elf]

after going through the entire forum i came up with a simple way to handle it but it would bring up two points. My way to handle it was to download a ttf called password and set that field to that password then using an installer i was able wrap the ttf up and install with the application. These are the two points. point 1: it would be nice to be able to embed fonts. point 2: it would be simplest to just have a toggle to make a field a password field

[richmond62]

Embedding fonts; cross-platform would really rock!

[makeshyft]

on keyUp
if the short name of me contains "PassField" then
local i
lock screen
lock messages
repeat with i = 1 to the number of characters in me
if the imagesource of char i of me is not "passwordstar" then // "passwordstar" = image
set the imagesource char i of me to "passwordstar"
end if
end repeat
unlock messages
unlock screen
pass keyUp
else
pass keyUp
end if

end keyUp

[trenatos]

There are plenty of ways of doing it with workarounds.
Which is not the point of my original post.

[richmond62]

I'm honestly not sure how you could do this without a "blob" font.

[MaxV]

I agree that is complicated to have a good password field. Instead of chars should appear aterisks "*", but how to handle backspace,canc,and arrow keys?
It's a lot of lines to write...

[FourthWorld]

It would be very nice to have that as a field property in the engine, but in the meantime this could be handled quite nicely in a behavior script.

Anyone here in a position to take the time to collaborate on one for the community to use?