From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,511884c4d439ef8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) Subject: Re: key strokes intercept Date: 1999/04/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 461951385 References: <370160f9.569041534@news.dsuper.net> <3705227f.749682976@news.dsuper.net> Organization: * JerryWare *, Leiden, Holland Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: fluffy_doo@dsuper.net wrote: : So right now there's no way to do what I want if I'm writing a DOS : program ? I have maybe two weeks to get it into my program if I : decide that I want to try. I'd use it as part of a password input : procedure, you know the asterix replacing whatever is typed in at the : keyboard. Someone in this thread mentioned the text_IO.get_immediate : function, and I thought maybe I could try to use it and replace the : key code (or whatever I`ll have to play with) with the backspace : followed by the asterix, if I can't actually turn off the screen ECHO. If you are using the DOS compiler, why not use the conio binding that comes with EZ2LOAD or on my homepage ? One of the functions is: Getch ----- Returns the character pressed. Unbuffered, no echo to the screen. It has a lot of other useful functions too. -- -- Jerry van Dijk | Leiden, Holland -- Team Ada | jdijk@acm.org -- see http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk