password

[droe]

you know when you type in a password for something and the password is shown as asteriks or something? how do you do that in turing?

[DemonWasp]

If you're using the GUI module, you can use GUI.SetEchoChar

If you're trying to do this with get, you can't. There's simply no way to tell it to do so; if you wanted, you could use this though:

Turing:

fcn getPassword () : string     View.Set ("noecho")     var password : string := ""     var ch : char     loop         cls         Text.Locate (1, 1)         put "Enter Password: ", repeat ("*", length (password)) ..         ch := getchar ()         %put ord ( ch )         if (ord (ch) = 8) then                          % Backspace = 8             if (length (password) > 0) then                 password := password (1 .. * -1)             end if         elsif (ord (ch) = 13 or ord (ch) = 10) then     % Return = 10 or 13 depending...             put ""             exit         elsif (ord (ch) < 128 and ord (ch) > 32) then   % Printable character             if (length (password) < 255) then                 password += ch             end if         end if     end loop     View.Set ("echo")     result password end getPassword var pwd : string pwd := getPassword () put "password was entered as '"+pwd+"'"

Basically, that tells Turing not to print your input to the screen ("noecho") then does the input-getting manually (adding to the "password" string, or removing characters if you hit backspace). No guarantees it's perfect, though.