Newton Developer Technical Information: Newton Programmer's Guide: 2.1 OS Addendum /

Chapter 11 - Miscellaneous / Reference

Protos

protoBlindEntryLine

This proto allows text to be entered, without echoing the text back to the user. This proto is used in the *protoPasswordSlip. It is shown in Figure 11-2

Figure 11-2 A view based on *protoBlindEntryLine

This proto has three slots of interest:

Slot descriptions

dummyChar

Optional. A character containing the text to display instead of the real text. By default, the bullet character is used.

realText

The string the user has typed. You should use this slot for looking up the value of the text (instead of looking in the text slot).

Do not modify this slot directly. Use the *UpdateText method.

label

Optional. The string used as the label of the entry lines.

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