Password Textbox in a PreferenceData plugin

On 03/01/2018 at 05:19, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi there,

we are using a PreferenceData plugin to extend the Preferences with our own settings. Now we need to have a password textbox. You know, the kind of textbox that only shows "*" instead of the actual characters.

I ready from this forum that there is really no way to do that, is that correct? We can only achieve that using GeDialog::SetString(), but in a PreferenceData we don't have access to the underlying GeDialog?

Is there any nifty way to get a password textbox into a custom preference pane?

Thanks in advance for tips & hints!

Cheers,
Frank

On 03/01/2018 at 22:12, xxxxxxxx wrote:

a workaround would be to override SetDParameter/GetDParameter to return only "*" characters, not pretty but works reasonably well

On 04/01/2018 at 03:34, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Frank,

It's not possible to have a password EditText inside a description like a dialog. There's no way to pass EDITTEXT_PASSWORD flag to the underlying EditText.

The workaround given by affa is a solution but has a limitation; the text content can't be updated while it's edited.