Re: Improving Tasks

2004-10-23 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Hello, > > However, before I start developing entirely new > tasks, I thought I might take a whack at improving a > few existing tasks. One improvement I'm thinking > about involves the core task . I'd like to > enhance it in a couple of ways: > 1. Provide for a masked input field so that it coul

RE: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Dale Anson
second thread to mask the characters being entered. > > http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Security/pwordmask/ > > Michael > > -Original Message- > From: Dale Anson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 2:57 PM > To: Ant Users Li

RE: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Michael Sunde
: Friday, October 22, 2004 2:57 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Improving Tasks Probably not widely known is that Ant-Contrib has a GUI input task, see http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ant-contrib/ant-contrib/src/net/sf /antcontrib/input/ GUIInputHandler. It does not do password masking

RE: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Dale Anson
for this task is not provided. :( > > -Rob A > >> -Original Message- >> From: Dick, Brian E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 9:30 AM >> To: Ant Users List >> Subject: RE: Improving Tasks >> >> &g

RE: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Anderson, Rob (Global Trade)
The source for this task is not provided. :( -Rob A > -Original Message- > From: Dick, Brian E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 9:30 AM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: RE: Improving Tasks > > > Look at > > http://homepage.ntl

RE: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Anderson, Rob (Global Trade)
> I'm not sure the committers of the task would approve the > task if it didn't > work on all of the platforms supporting Ant. Isn't one of > Ant's key features > the idea that tasks work on all of the supported platforms? > > Rhino Just because a task does not get added to the project doesn't

Re: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Rhino
b (Global Trade)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 12:12 PM Subject: RE: Improving Tasks > > Rhino wrote: > > > > > 1. Provide for a masked input field so that it could be > used to prompt &g

RE: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Dick, Brian E.
Look at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wayne_grant/ant.html -Original Message- From: Erskine, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 12:26 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Improving Tasks My first guess would be if this could be done using Swing with a popup

RE: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Erskine, Chris
80919 Phone: 719-535-6064 Phone: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Anderson, Rob (Global Trade) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 10:13 AM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: RE: Improving Tasks > > > > Rhino wrote: >

RE: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Anderson, Rob (Global Trade)
> > Rhino wrote: > > > > > 1. Provide for a masked input field so that it could be > used to prompt > > > for a password that would remain unreadable to anyone > looking over the > > > users shoulder. (I envision adding a 'mask="true"' > parameter to make > > > that possible with the default for

Re: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: "Robert Koberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 9:40 AM Subject: Re: Improving Tasks > Rhino wrote: > > > 1. Provide for a masked input field so that i

Re: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Rhino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if the existing task can display a textfield with two > buttons in a popup dialog, It doesn't. What you see is an InputHandler that does it - probably part of your IDE but not part of Ant. > shouln't I be able to do the same thing with ra

Re: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Rhino
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 9:43 AM Subject: RE: Improving Tasks I think this page should answer all your questions: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/getinvolved.html Check out the "Contribute Code or Documentation Patches" section, in particular. Regards, ~Jef

Re: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 9:55 AM Subject: Re: Improving Tasks > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Rhino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm starting to get

Re: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Rhino
Jan, Your entire reply was very useful but I have a followup question re Question 2: if the existing task can display a textfield with two buttons in a popup dialog, shouln't I be able to do the same thing with radio buttons or drop down lists instead of a textfield? Rhino - Original Messag

RE: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Rebhan, Gilbert
Hi, -Original Message- From: Rhino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 3:36 PM To: ant-user Subject: Improving Tasks /* 1. Provide for a masked input field so that it could be used to prompt for a password that would remain unreadable to anyone looking over the u

Re: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Rhino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm starting to get the hang of Ant now and am starting to think > about developing some tasks to increase what it can do. Welcome. > 1. Provide for a masked input field so that it could be used to > prompt for a password that would remain

RE: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Jeff Davidson
I think this page should answer all your questions: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/getinvolved.html Check out the "Contribute Code or Documentation Patches" section, in particular. Regards, ~Jeff -Original Message- From: Rhino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 6

Re: Improving Tasks

2004-10-22 Thread Robert Koberg
Rhino wrote: 1. Provide for a masked input field so that it could be used to prompt for a password that would remain unreadable to anyone looking over the users shoulder. (I envision adding a 'mask="true"' parameter to make that possible with the default for 'mask' being 'false'.) I like this al