How to turn the echo off within a 4gl application

}From: fsc0@bigbang.isg.com }Date: Fri, 22 Oct 93 11:21:12 -0700 }Subject: How to turn the echo off within a 4gl application }X-Informix-List-Id: <list.2986> } 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. } } Any comment or suggestion will be greatly appreciated. }Francis Chue }Unix System Project Leader }American TriTech Internet: fsc0@isg.com }10717 Sorrento Valley Road Voice : (619)453-7000 ext. 283 }San Diego, CA 92121 Fax : (619)453-8709 We are doing this, but we had to write a bunch of extra code to make it sorta' work. We set the INVISIBLE screen attribute, and when the user enters his data we save it to a separate global variable. Then we use BEFORE FIELD and AFTER FIELD in the 4gl, setting the screen variable to NULL before and after the user enters the field. When we want to use what the user entered, we refer to the global variable. We're using 4GL version 4.10.UD1, OnLine version 5.00.UC2 Good Luck! _____________________________________________________ /| Clem Akins Standard Disclaimers Apply | || Reynolds Metals Co. ("Cutesy" ones, too!) | || Alloys Plant (MS #59) | || 3509 East 2nd St Internet: cwakins@rmc.com | || Muscle Shoals, Al Telephone: (205) 386-6783 | || USA 35661-1256 Facsimile: (205) 386-6831 | || "Climb High, Cave Deep!" | ||_____________________________________________________| /_____________________________________________________/