Java Development

[narcissus299]

I am a rookie developer so I would be glad if you can also provide a code example for my problem.

So I am making an app which has say EditField EditField and while typing, when the user holds say the LEFT SHIFT,the characters being typed are stored in String Secret ( without those characters appearing on the screen ) while the text on the screen is replaced with characters (as the user types to store the secret text in Secret ) which is pre-defined by the programmer.

Thank you for the assistance.

[avi_yach]

I think you are searching for the effort of Password Field, when user types something it will be replaced with '*' asterix symbol.

For your requirement you can use net.rim.device.api.ui.component.PasswordEditField() instead of EditField to store the secret

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[simon_hain · Accepted solution]

welcome to the support forums.

if passwordeditfield does not fit your requirements you could overwrite keyChar and implement a custom handling.

[narcissus299]

What I intended was the keychar method as I wanted the text to be stored off screen instead of appearing as **** on the screen itself. Thanks for the help. (y)