If it's anything like important to protect these passwords, show 8 bullets for everything. For one, you don't have to worry about column width for really long passwords, and secondly, knowing how long a password is goes a long way towards brute forcing it.
Bob On May 13, 2011, at 7:13 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: > ...good points well made, Chris. > > The password protect font was intended to a) show the user that they'd > actually entered something and b) provide 'over the shoulder' protection. > > My intention is to have the data grid read-only but with rows selectable. Row > data entry/editing would be in a dialogue box. So, I will try to hide the > real passwords in the underlying array - and show just the equivalent number > of a place-filler characters in the data grid. > Thanks, > Keith.. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
