Re: How to turn the echo off within 4gl.

> I am not sure if someone has posed this question before or not. > I am writing a informix 4gl program and there are a couple of fields on > the screen that I do not want the user to see what he or she is > typing in. > Is there a way to turn the echo off within an informix 4gl program? > Or is there a way to echo asterisk to the screen while the user is typing? > I am playing with the color attribute (like using black on black, > etc) but that does not seem to work too well on some terminals. I am > currently using informix 4gl version 4.1 with Informix Online 4.1 as my > database engine. I have gotten this to work as follows: INPUT BY NAME p_password ATTRIBUTE(INVISIBLE) This works nicely on multiple fields that remain blank with a moving cursor and erase working okay. This does not work if you want to mix display and non-display fields in the one form; you must do seperate inputs. I am using informix 4.1 with standard engine. Bye, | Mark J. Twomey | m___ Analyst/Programmer | @=" )~~ Pig Out ! Information Technology & Automation, | W W | Motorola B.V. +---------------------------------- Swords, Dublin, Ireland. EMail: mjt@email.mot.com (This file content is just my personal opinion)