Input hiding (different from password hiding)

[Geek-9pm]

What he said is more or less:

I believe in you is 11 hours of the morning, but your screen name translates as "geek-21h00. You speak American English, but you write like someone who speaks a language derived from Latin. And occasionally, you write like someone who comes from another planet:

...from another planet

I have been told to avoid talking about my origin, All I am allowed to say here is that I am not of this world. But that is off topic anyway. You might start a poll on the forum about how many visitors you have like me. You could be surprised, The two of use are not the only ones.

[Helpmeh]

Attached is a zip containing getpassword.exe which I wrote myself. To reassure yourself, do a virus scan before running. Crude but it works OK for a batch type project.

Writes the typed password into a file in the same folder called password.txt which you should read and delete immediately.

use it like this

test.bat

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@echo off
echo Password demo
echo.
echo We will now ask for a password
echo.
getpassword.exe
for /f "delims=" %%P in (password.txt) do set password=%%P
del password.txt
echo the password typed was %password%


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S:\Test\Basic\pword>test
Password demo

We will now ask for a password

Enter password : ***
the password typed was cat


I just found this out now, and this could annoy the people using the script...backspace counts as a key, and so does clicking the X button.

Backspace counts as:

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Closing counts as:

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ÿk

[gh0std0g74]

if it annoys you, then modify it . you have the source code .

[Helpmeh]

if it annoys you, then modify it . you have the source code .

It's an EXE file.

[gh0std0g74]

its done with QBasic / Freebasic. If you can download exe from the net, i am sure you can download qbasic/freebasic.

[Helpmeh]

its done with QBasic / Freebasic. If you can download exe from the net, i am sure you can download qbasic/freebasic.

It's not a HUGE deal, I really don't want to download anything that's not absolutely nessasary. Like Dias said, crude but it works.

[gh0std0g74]

It's not a HUGE deal, I really don't want to download anything that's not absolutely nessasary. Like Dias said, crude but it works.

then how did you download Dias zip or exe? its still a download right? if you can make do with your slight annoyances then so be it.

[Helpmeh]

then how did you download Dias zip or exe? its still a download right? if you can make do with your slight annoyances then so be it.

The EXE came in the zip attached to his post.

[gh0std0g74]

The EXE came in the zip attached to his post.

precisely, you fired up browser and came to this forum , to this thread and downloaded something. Its the same as you fire up your browser, go to the site where you can download qbasic, and then use it to modify your code and compile it.  get it?

[Helpmeh]

precisely, you fired up browser and came to this forum , to this thread and downloaded something. Its the same as you fire up your browser, go to the site where you can download qbasic, and then use it to modify your code and compile it.  get it?

I looked at the code, and it was a fair bit confusing...I really don't want to learn another language, just to make something like 2% better...when chances are people won't be needing it anyway.

[Dias de verano]

I just found this out now, and this could annoy the people using the script...backspace counts as a key, and so does clicking the X button.

Backspace counts as:

Code: [Select]

Closing counts as:

Code: [Select]

ÿk

So what? Why are these problems?

[BC_Programmer]

backspace, after all, is a key.

[macdad-]

Here 

This avoids the Backspace and closing keys showing up.

[Helpmeh]

This avoids the Backspace and closing keys showing up.

Thanks macdad, but I'm afraid that won't work (or I don't know how it could work). What I happens is the user enter's their username, then their password. If the username and password don't match a line in a file, then the user tries again, or gives up...Is there a way that it can MASK the input (like in visual basic), instead of doing it letter by letter?

[614olbaid]

helpmeh, i seen too possible ways of masking the input

First, Using a 3rd party program to add colors to the NT prompt,  for example making the input line black on black,

Second, Using Getkey.com getkey.com accepts input in the form of one charachter at a time, the input as stored as the number of the letter on the keyboard and set into %ERRORLEVEL%

So basically it would be enterting the password 1 letter at a time, but instead of password the input and matching input from file would be something like 1273049048208202 , just a string of numbers.