G4P Hiding Text in Textfield

mpedersen..

in Contributed Library Questions • 2 months ago

Hi guys,

I'm pretty new to Processing and the Forum so pardon me if this is not in the correct place or has been answered already (I don't think it has).

I'm using the GUI Builder tool and G4P library to make an interface that requires a user login. I'm using textfields for the username and password inputs. The login works, but, ideally, I would like the text that goes into the password field to be hidden. Does anyone know if there is a built-in feature to do this? I looked at the reference and didn't think there is, but may have overlooked something.

If anyone has any suggestions or advice, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks,

Matt

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quarks

Re: G4P Hiding Text in Textfield

2 months ago

Unfortunately there is no library method to hide the text in the GTextField control and I can't think of a way to do that without modifying the library.

Sorry

mpedersen..

Re: G4P Hiding Text in Textfield

2 months ago

Thank you for the reply! I thought this might be the case. Perhaps you know a way that I can draw on top of the text field I want to hide? Right now I draw a number of little squares corresponding to the length of the typed password, but the text field overlaps these. Is there an easy way to flip the draw order maybe?

Thanks,

Matt

quarks

Re: G4P Hiding Text in Textfield

2 months ago

Perhaps you know a way that I can draw on top of the text field I want to hide?

Not that I can think of, but you could replace the text with a string of "#" characters when the GTextField object gets the ENTERED (enter / return key types) event. At least this will hide the test once entered.

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