Password Mask

Hi folks,

I know you can use or set the Password mask on an edit control etc, but how do you do the same on a column in a table, it does not seem to offer that functionality.

Hi,

passwords shouldn't be stored in datafiles. Never ever. The most simple and safe way to kinda store a password, is to convert it to a hash and to "salt" the hash after conversion. "Salting" means to insert random characters at certain positions within the text of the hash and to remove them before checking the password against the hash. That's the way it is done today. Stealing of whole files containing passwords is impossible that way - the thief has nothing except for a file with unusable hashes.

Kind regards,
Guenter Predl
office@windev.at

+1....

and as passwords should NEVER be stored in a DB (except of course for a password manager, but in that case you DON'T want to display them in a table), there is no reason for the password mask to be available in a table control

Thanks for the feedback, but the column I need to (password) actually is not a password I just want to use the functionality that the edit control has to hide the value of the field, a request from my customer!

As an aside I am well aware of not putting passwords in DBs

I don't think you can define it in the table columns, yo can do the same by code.

If you really need it why don't you put some code in the Whenever modifying event of that column to replace what is typed witth * or some other char.

Regards

Paulo Oliveira



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2021 01:14PM by pao.

in that case, you can simply use 2 columns: one is invisible, with the real data in it, and one is visible, with 8 ******* in it for each line...
When you do whatever you do to make the info visible, you either switch the visibitliy of the whole column or copy the content of one cell to the other