(Written by David McMinn and fixed by Dave Newton)

Hi David,

>> Isn`t there a edit hook that you can use to parse incoming characters,
then
>> you could watch for acceptable characters and store them in an array (so
you
>> know what password has been entered) and return * for gtstring to show.
I`m
>> sure that`s the way you do it, because that`s how you block spaces in
>> passwords. It`d need some clever handling of things like delete and
cursor
>> keys though.
>
>Yep, I was going to try exactly this ages ago, but I couldn't be arsed
because
>the amount of hassle for keeping the second array in sync with what had
been
>entered was more than I needed for a small test I wasn't going to do
anything
>with anyway.
>
>But I've attached the hook code for what I did.


Well seeing how you nicely sent the almost working code...here`s my quick
fix for making it work :)....I wouldn`t bet my trousers on it keeping track
under all intuition weird messages (like reset/undo??)....but it should work
(from some old editor code sort of). Hope it helps someone....

Dave


P.s. I`m not sure how REPLACECHAR works...as how do you do overwrite chars
in a gt string gadget???