Password Field

[cppnewb]

Hi Again. I have a password field in one of my programs. I would like to display the letters as a *. Does anyone have some code to achieve this?

[Freaky_Chris]

I think your going to have to give more detail here...Are you using MFC? If so then a password box will automatically do this....

Again we really need more information

Chris

[MosaicFuneral]

Scan keyboard state, read keys till Return pressed.

[cppnewb]

Like:

string pword;
string pkey = "testing";
cout << "Please enter the password";
<<endl;
cin >> pword;

[twomers]

You could do it (quite unstandardly) via

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

// Non-standard library
#include <conio.h>

int main() {
  std::string password;

  std::cout<< "Enter password: ";
  for( char ch=getch(); ch != 0x0D; ch=getch() ) {
    password += ch;
    std::cout<< "*";
  }
  std::cout<< "\nThe password is: " << password << "\n";

  return 0;
}

0x0D is hex for return, I think.

[Salem]

> Again we really need more information
Specifically, your operating system and compiler.

And try to be more specific than say "windows" and "borland", as there are many versions of both.

[cppnewb]

Ok, sure thing. I'm using Windows XP and My complier is the one that comes with Dev-C++, Mingw I believe.