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Tom
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by Tom Wed Apr 08, 2015 6:16 am
Hi, Roger.
What about a DCGET ... PASSWORD SHOWLASTCHARACTER clause? Instead of this when typing "ROGER":
"*****"
this:
"****R"
should be shown if the last action was typing the "R". This is standard behaviour in most password SLEs now.
Not urgent. Just an idea. Only three or maybe ten lines in _DCXBPGT.PRG to be changed.
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by bwolfsohn Wed Apr 08, 2015 6:37 am
Tom wrote: Hi, Roger.
What about a DCGET ... PASSWORD SHOWLASTCHARACTER clause? Instead of this when typing "ROGER":
"*****"
this:
"****R"
should be shown if the last action was typing the "R". This is standard behaviour in most password SLEs now.
Not urgent. Just an idea. Only three or maybe ten lines in _DCXBPGT.PRG to be changed.
would be a nice addition...
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by rdonnay Wed Apr 08, 2015 9:55 am
That makes a lot of sense.
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Tom
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by Tom Thu Apr 09, 2015 12:20 am
rdonnay wrote: That makes a lot of sense.
I see a little problem coming with this. For showing filled circles instead of asterisks, a symbol font can be used for the password. Symbol fonts like Marlett don't have standard characters. I don't believe it's possible to mix two fonts in a SLE.
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Wolfgang Ciriack
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by Wolfgang Ciriack Thu Apr 09, 2015 3:14 am
Can someone explain the sense of this feature ?
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Tom
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by Tom Thu Apr 09, 2015 3:42 am
Hi, Wolfgang.
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by Zdeno Bielik Thu Apr 09, 2015 4:37 am
if I correct understand it, Tom wants something likes this
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by rdonnay Thu Apr 09, 2015 6:44 am
Actually, there can be 2 problems with this. First is the symbol problem, second is the timeout. People will complain because the last character should only show for 1 second. This requires more code and complicates things. The symbol issue could be handled if the XbpSle class supported owner drawing but I don't think it does. I'll look into this.
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by Koverhage Thu Apr 09, 2015 6:51 am
The user sees the last character typed. This reduces typo errors.
Yes and all people behind the typing person
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by rdonnay Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:13 am
Yes and all people behind the typing person
How about an audio feedback then?
"You typed R"
"You typed O"
"You typed G"
...
Hmmm. That's not such a good idea either.
The user sees the last character typed. This reduces typo errors.
We can use the Google method in the Validation code:
Did you mean "hack78wing23!$" ?
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