Font Password Masking

[sonnje01]

- Been using Jrrlicht for some time now, and was wondering if there is a way to mask text in an IGUIEditBox. I'm creating an online game that requires login/password and can't quite figure out how to mask the text so the user sees an echo character. I found a bunch of information on password masking in JFrame and in the Command line at:
"http://java.sun.com/developer/technical ... pwordmask/", but not sure if irrlicht has the capability.

- Also wondering about the ability to tab for formating issues. I've been trying to format a IGUIListBox with spaces and keep running into dead ends, because the letters are different sizes. If irrlicht supported tabs it would make formating a whole bunch easier... Any help or information would be greatly appreciated.

[raven_coda]

You could make a custom font with all characters just "*"
as each fonts just a bmp file just open it up in your editor and cut and paste the star over all the other characters.

Not sure for Jrrlicht but in c++ it's just

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edtBox->setOverrideFont(GUImgr->getFont("pass.bmp"));

[Acki]

In my IrrExtensions I added this functionality, you can set the edit box to password and define what character should be shown (default '*')...

[sonnje01]

Awsome! got the password masking working, created my own text bmp. Thanks a whole bunch ... now I just need to figure out how to format my lists correctly. Perhaps I'll have to use all lowercase letters, or all uppercase letters to get them to align up.. Thanks agian