[MiNT] AES editable field extension proposal (was: Re: [WinDom] Windom Password)

[Arnaud BERCEGEAY <arnaud.bercegeay@free.fr>]

Hi list,

Some AES formular may be used to enter login and password. When we type 
some characters in the "password" field, this field must display "****" (a 
star per character typed) instead of the clear password typed.

ATM, that kind of OBJECT doesn't exist.

I suggest to extend the te_pvalid field of editable objects. The 
characters in te_pvalid have the following meaning:

9 Digits 0-9 	
A Uppercase letters A-Z plus space 	
a Upper and lowercase letters plus space 	
N Digits 0-9, uppercase letters A-Z, and space 	
n Digits 0-9, upper and lowercase letters A-Z, and space 	
F Valid GEMDOS filename characters plus question mark and asterisk 	
P Valid GEMDOS pathname characters plus backslash, colon, question mark, 
and asterisk 	
p Valid GEMDOS pathname characters plus backslash and colon 	
X All characters

I suggest to add the "*" character for password. For the validing point of 
view, "*" is equivalent to "X" (all characters are allowed), but the 
object display a star instead of the real character.

Any comment ? Any other suggestion ?


best regards,
Arnaud.


------- Forwarded message -------
From: Arnaud BERCEGEAY <arnaud.bercegeay@free.fr>
To: windom@ml.free.fr
Subject: Re: [WinDom] Windom Password
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 20:19:06 +0200

> Hello,
>
> > I was wondering what the best way would be to mask a password in a
> > normal edit field.
>
> At the moment, i don't know any...
>
> I see 2 options:
> - implement this feature in all still supported AES (XaAES, MyAES, 
> others?)
> - implement this as a userdef object in windom.
>
> In both cases, we have to agree on an extention of the OBJECT 
> definition. Then, windom could transform such OBJECT to userdef object 
> with the password feature if the running AES doesn't support the 
> password feature.
>
> follow up to mint mailing list...
>
> best regards,
> Arnaud.