My first guess would be if this could be done using Swing with a popup. This would work an most systems - just not the ones where I am running in a terminal window or a background task like cron.
Chris Erskine EDS Consulting Services F5-EDS-001 2424 Garden of the Gods Rd Colorado Springs, CO 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: > > > > > > > 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 alot. > > > > > Stephan's reply to my post says that this has been attempted > > before but no > > one could find a way that worked on all of the platforms. I > > don't have any > > better ideas so you probably shouldn't hold your breath on > > this idea ;-) > > If you can implement this on any platform it would be helpful. Portability > may be an issue, but any implementation that is open source would be a > good start. I say give it a shot. > > -Rob Anderson > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
