Input Boxes

[brjames]

I am using an input box to enter a password so the user can enter the password maintenance section of my password system. The trouble is that I want the input box to display the password typed in by the user as * instead of text so that no one else can read the password as it is keyed in.

Does anyone know how to this?

Thankx

Ben

[HeSaidJoe]

'set the input of an input box to password characters
'---bas module code-- 
Option Explicit 

Public Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long 

Public Declare Function FindWindowEx Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowExA" (ByVal hWnd1 As Long, ByVal hWnd2 As Long, ByVal lpsz1 As String, ByVal lpsz2 As String) As Long 

Public Declare Function SetTimer& Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd&, ByVal nIDEvent&, ByVal uElapse&, ByVal lpTimerFunc&) 

Public Declare Function KillTimer& Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd&, ByVal nIDEvent&) 
Public Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) As Long 
Public Const NV_INPUTBOX As Long = &H5000& 
Public Const EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR = &HCC 
Public Sub TimerProc(ByVal hwnd&, ByVal uMsg&, ByVal idEvent&, ByVal dwTime&) 
    Dim myHwnd As Long 
'Change here App.Title (defoult InputBox Caption) into your caption 
    myHwnd = FindWindowEx(FindWindow("#32770", App.Title), 0, "Edit", "") 
     Call SendMessage(myHwnd, EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR, 42, 0) 
    KillTimer hwnd, idEvent 
End Sub 

'--Using - form code: 
Private Sub Command1_Click() 
Dim sPass As String 
SetTimer hwnd, NV_INPUTBOX, 10, AddressOf TimerProc 
sPass = InputBox("Set Password") 
End Sub

[mlewis]

make it easy on yourself:

create a form called frmInputBox with controls Label1 and Text1, where text1 has PasswordChar set to * Also have Command1 on the form.

' in a module
Public Function InputBox(ByVal Prompt As String,ByVal Caption As String)
frmInputBox.Label1 = Prompt
frmInputBox.Caption = Caption
frmInputBox.Show 1
InputBox = frmInputBox.Text1.Text
End Function

' in frmInputBox
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Me.Hide
End Sub

[Lafor]

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