Re: [Freetype] Special one-char font?

[Geoff Baskwill]

Paul,

You may also want to consider the possibility of users trying to do a cut
and paste from your password entry field.  This should, of course, result
in them getting a string of '*' characters rather than the password, since
the whole point of displaying asterisks is to obscure the password.

It would probably be best to have your text edit control keep two strings
-- one being the actual password, and the other being the displayed string
of asterisks.  I believe this is the implementation method chosen by
current widget sets.

Regards,
glb

> > I want to implement a text edit control for a custom GUI platform that
> > displays only '*' characters when drawing text. That way, a password
> > input can be implemented much more easily. Is there a way to create
> > a TrueType (or similar) font that has only one characterand /all/ requests
> > for any character always return that same character? This font must
> > cover all of Unicode, so I can't just replicate the character in FontLab.
> >
> > The only other alternative I can think of is to have some kind of shim
> > or new driver that sits between my API and FreeType, but that wouldn't
> > be convenient when just making a special font would solve everything.

-- 
Geoff Baskwill <address@hidden>