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apomb

Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:16 pm


Shoes and edit boxes

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Alright, so i've been messing around with shoes, and i'm wondering if there is a way of changing input text when dealing with edit lines.

For example, as the user is typing, the text inside the box is masked as an asterisk

here's what i have so far.  Its not much, but its where im going to start from. 
Shoes.app do
	stack :margin => 4 do
		@fill = para strong("Guess the password")
		@line = edit_line :width => 100
		@butt = button "Hit this button to enter text"
		@text = para " "
		@butt.click{
			@new = @line.text
			if @new == "pass"
	    	   @fill.replace strong("Congrats")
			   @text.replace " "
			else
			   @text.replace "Not correct"
		    end
		}
	end
end



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Tony

Mon Jun 08, 2009 12:13 pm


RE:Shoes and edit boxes

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with Events
http://help.shoooes.net/Events.html#keypress{|key|...}


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apomb

Mon Jun 08, 2009 7:37 pm


RE:Shoes and edit boxes

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thanks tony, ill check that out.


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apomb

Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:45 am


RE:Shoes and edit boxes

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Ok, well ive tried that out, but it doesnt work when I'm typing inside the edit box.


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Tony

Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:52 am


RE:Shoes and edit boxes

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You could get them to type outside of an edit box, effectively building your own control.

Though it's odd... it seems like there should be an easier way for something like this. I don't actually use Shoes...


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apomb

Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:04 am


RE:Shoes and edit boxes

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Indeed it seems like a somewhat common thing.  I'll look into it further, thanks for the help though. and yeah, i guess i could just make my own text box essentially by drawing a box, fill it white and just update the letters using the keystroke {|key|...} idea.