Grygonos has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there a way to * out selected text in Tk. Say an FTP password. I was just toying around with Net::FTP and Tk making a FTP client.

Thanks,
Grygonos

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Re: quick Tk question
by CombatSquirrel (Hermit) on Dec 05, 2003 at 21:01 UTC
    I'm not quite sure about what you mean, but you might be looking for the -show attribute of Tk::Entry. Example: 
    #!perl -w
use strict;

use Tk;

my $main = new MainWindow;

my $entry = $main->Entry(-show => '*')->pack;

MainLoop;

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Re: quick Tk question
by converter (Priest) on Dec 05, 2003 at 21:04 UTC

    See the -show option in the Tk::Entry man page. Example: 

    #!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;

my $input = '';

my $m = tkinit;
$m->Entry(
    -show           => "*",
    -textvariable   => \$input,
)->pack;
$m->Button(
    -text       => 'Quit',
    -command    => sub { $m->destroy },
)->pack;

MainLoop;

print "input was: $input\n";

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