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Password Fields in UI
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Hi,
I've created a program using the UI editor with a single text field being used for logging in. First the password is entered, so I set the text field to be a password field in the editor. Is there any way I can switch back to a regular text field (ie. Typing without the dots) in code?
Thanks!
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@lachlantula , sorry I don't have an exact answer for you. I doubt you can do what you want to do though exactly using the one field, but I am not really sure.
But you could have 2 fields on the view. Hide and show them depending on if the user clicked a button on the view to show or hide text for example. -
Set secure to False
import ui v = ui.View(frame=(0,0,400,100)) t = ui.TextField(frame=v.frame) #t.secure = True t.secure = False v.add_subview(t) v.present('sheet')
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@abcabc , nice you are right. The label in the Designer would be better if it was 'Secure' though. I did a dir print and looked at the help, I still missed it. My brain was looking for something else.
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There appears to be a problem here though when using the system font. It wants to default to times font, even you set it explicitly. Something like Menlo font behaves a lot better, or as expected.
import ui _font = ('Menlo', 24) #_font = ('<System>', 24) def btn_action(sender): fld = sender.superview['pwd'] fld.secure = not fld.secure fld.font = _font if fld.secure: sender.title = 'Clear Text' else: sender.title = 'Protected' v = ui.View(frame=(0,0,400,100), bg_color ='white') t = ui.TextField(name = 'pwd', frame=(0,0,v.width, 48)) t.font= _font #t.secure = True t.secure = False v.add_subview(t) btn = ui.Button(frame = (10,0, 80, 32), title = 'Protected') btn.y = t.frame.max_y + 10 btn.width += btn.width * 1 btn.border_width = .5 btn.corner_radius = 3 btn.action = btn_action v.add_subview(btn) v.present('sheet')
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@lachlantula , no problems. I was just intrested in trying it after @abcabc pointed out the secure attr. I have see things go strange before when you play with the size of the system font. But initially I was using the default size. Oh, well