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Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual
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Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual

by David Brennan, Dan Heller, Paula Ferguson
September 1993
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1014 pages
28h 26m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual
/* check_passwd() −− handle the input of a password. */
void
check_passwd(text_w, client_data, call_data)
Widget text_w;
XtPointer client_data;
XtPointer call_data;
{
char *new;
int len;
XmTextVerifyCallbackStruct *cbs =
(XmTextVerifyCallbackStruct *) call_data;
if (cbs−>reason == XmCR_ACTIVATE) {
printf ("Password: %s0, passwd);
return;
}
if (cbs−>startPos < cbs−>currInsert) { /* backspace */
cbs−>endPos = strlen (passwd); /* delete from here to end */
passwd[cbs−>startPos] = 0; /* backspace−−terminate */
return;
}
if (cbs−>text−>length > 1) {
cbs−>doit = False; /* don't allow "paste" operations */
return; /* make the user *type* the password! */
}
new = XtMalloc (cbs−>endPos + 2); /* new char + NULL terminator */
if (passwd) {
strcpy (new, passwd);
XtFree (passwd);
} else
new[0] = NULL;
passwd = new;
strncat (passwd, cbs−>text−>ptr, cbs−>text−>length);
passwd[cbs−>endPos + cbs−>text−>length] = 0;
for (len = 0; len < cbs−>text−>length; len++)
cbs−>text−>ptr[len] = '*';
}
As you can see in the figure, the Text widget only displays asterisks, no matter what the user has typed.
Output of password.c
We use the check_passwd() function for both the XmNactivateCallback and the
XmNmodifyVerifyCallback callbacks. When the user presses RETURN, the routine prints what has been typed
to stdout. If the user is not backspacing through the text, we know we can add the new text to passwd, which ...
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