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| Diets... |
 Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:48 am |
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Hi all
Any help? In QM we have "hidden"
Thanks in advance!
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| Martin Phillips... |
| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:33 pm |
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Hi Diets,
As far as I know (and I may be wrong), this is unique to QM.
Other platforms allow you to suppress echo but not to echo an asterisk
for each character without writing your own input processing based on
KEYIN() or its equivalent.
Martin Phillips, Ladybridge Systems |
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| Ross Ferris... |
| Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:33 pm |
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On Sep 17, 7:48 pm, Diets <di... at (no spam) homemail.co.za> wrote:
Quote: Hi all
Any help? In QM we have "hidden"
Thanks in advance!
Diets
If you don't already have one, you will need to roll your own routine
that does character input ... that way you have the functionality ....
lots of other benefits of a single I/O routine rather than random
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| Ricky Ginsburg... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:00 am |
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Martin - How do you do it in QM?
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Ricky Ginsburg
http://www.fawnridge.com/ricky
(always open!)
"Martin Phillips" <MartinPhillips at (no spam) ladybridge.com> wrote in message
news:373bfeb5-b4e7-4af4-9bae-1b045c7509a5 at (no spam) d21g2000vbm.googlegroups.com...
Quote: Hi Diets,
As far as I know (and I may be wrong), this is unique to QM.
Other platforms allow you to suppress echo but not to echo an asterisk
for each character without writing your own input processing based on
KEYIN() or its equivalent.
Martin Phillips, Ladybridge Systems |
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| Tony Gravagno... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:21 am |
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Martin Phillips wrote:
Quote: Hi Diets,
As far as I know (and I may be wrong), this is unique to QM.
Other platforms allow you to suppress echo but not to echo an asterisk
for each character without writing your own input processing based on
KEYIN() or its equivalent.
I can't think of any native way to do this in other platforms either,
with Input options or user exits. Then again it's only a couple lines
of code.
Not that this is too close a situation, but I can never figure out why
some people will "stand on principle", waiting for years for a vendor
to produce functionality, when they can easily do it themselves.
T |
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| Peter McMurray... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:29 am |
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Hi
ECHO OFF;INPUT at (no spam) (X,Y):WANT;ECHO ON
CHK = LEN(WANT)
CRT at (no spam) (X,Y):STR("*",CHK)
there is no need to display each character as you hit it. Let's face it who
is actually going to count the asterisks? In fact how many operators today
actually touch type. Also I can think of plenty of applications where there
is a message "you will not see what you type"
Peter McMurray
"Martin Phillips" <MartinPhillips at (no spam) ladybridge.com> wrote in message
news:373bfeb5-b4e7-4af4-9bae-1b045c7509a5 at (no spam) d21g2000vbm.googlegroups.com...
Quote: Hi Diets,
As far as I know (and I may be wrong), this is unique to QM.
Other platforms allow you to suppress echo but not to echo an asterisk
for each character without writing your own input processing based on
KEYIN() or its equivalent.
Martin Phillips, Ladybridge Systems |
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| Pickie... |
| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:13 pm |
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Check out http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FieldInput
It's not all that clearly spelt out (sorry) but if the type code is an
asterisk, the program accepts character input but will display
asterisks as you type. The code is intended to be terminal-
independant, but is written for Universe, so you may have to change
the KEYIN() and NAP parts.
http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GetKey is a variant to emulate
QM terminal independant KEYCODE()... again, for Universe, so the same
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| Diets... |
| Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:42 pm |
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Quote: On Sep 18, 3:33 pm, Ross Ferris <ro... at (no spam) stamina.com.au> wrote:
If you don't already have one, you will need to roll your own routine
that does character input ... that way you have the functionality ....
lots of other benefits of a single I/O routine rather than random
INPUT statement
Thank Ross, yes I do have a single input routine, and yes it does mask
input and displays character by character with a simple "pw" flag. I
was just enquiring to find out if anything standard was available on
the other platforms.
Thank all.
Diets. |
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| Martin Phillips... |
| Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:55 pm |
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On 19 Sep, 00:00, "Ricky Ginsburg" <ric... at (no spam) fawnridge.com> wrote:
Quote: Martin - How do you do it in QM?
It's buried deep inside the INPUT processing as a standard option
along with a few other input editing features such as forcing
uppercase and some more elaborate tricks.
Martin Phillips, Ladybridge Systems. |
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