Setting password style to a wxTextCtrl at runtime (solution)

[sampah03]

I searched for the method of setting password style to a wxTextCtrl at runtime, and the answer is impossible, as the manual says:

wxTE_READONLY, wxTE_PASSWORD and wrapping styles can be dynamically changed under wxGTK but not wxMSW.

I know that it can be done at runtime (I did it when I was using VB and Euphoria), so I tried this code and it works. Unfortunately it is for Windows only.

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void setPassword(wxWindow* win, int active) {
	HWND hwnd = (HWND) win->GetHandle();
	SendMessage(hwnd, EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR, active? 0x25cf: 0, 0); // 0x25cf is ● character
	win->Refresh();
}

So I'm posting this code in case any of you need it. I am also hoping that this will be integrated at future versions.

[priyank_bolia]

Cool I was also looking for this.

[posta10100]

You can do that:

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void setPassword(wxWindow* win, int active) {
#ifdef __WXMSW__
        HWND hwnd = (HWND) win->GetHandle();
        SendMessage(hwnd, EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR, active? 0x25cf: 0, 0); // 0x25cf is ● character
        win->Refresh();
#else
        win->SetWindowStyle(wxTE_PASSWORD);
#endif
} 

I don't try it but I think that it can works!

[mc2r]

The win-Refresh() should be moved after the #endif as win will need to be refreshed regardless of the method used to change it's style.

and finaly this is maybe better done as a patch wxWindow::SetWindowStyle(), as you code shows that wxTE_PASSWORD is a style that can be changed after creation on __WXMSW__.

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void setPassword(wxWindow* win, int active) {
#ifdef __WXMSW__
        HWND hwnd = (HWND) win->GetHandle();
        SendMessage(hwnd, EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR, active? 0x25cf: 0, 0); // 0x25cf is ● character

#else
        win->SetWindowStyle(wxTE_PASSWORD);
#endif
        win->Refresh();
} 

-Max

[Troels]

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win->SetWindowStyle(wxTE_PASSWORD);

You are not only setting the the password flag, you are clearing out all other flags in the process.
Try this

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inline void wxModifyStyle(wxWindow* wnd, long remove, long add)
{
   long dw = wnd->GetWindowStyleFlag();
   dw&=~remove;
   dw|=add;
   wnd->SetWindowStyleFlag(dw);
}
...
wxModifyStyle(win, 0, wxTE_PASSWORD);

[Troels]

It turns out that restoring the bullet after once removing it (with 0) is impossible, in Ansi mode builds on WinXP.
SendMessage(EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR) and even SendMessageW(EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR) cannot understand 0x25CF. You just have to settle for '*' in non-Unicode builds.
This is tested on WinXP(ansi+unicode),Win95(ansi),Vista(unicode) and GTK2:

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void wxTextCtrl_SetPasswordFlag(wxTextCtrl* win, bool active)
{
#ifdef __WXMSW__
   HWND hwnd = (HWND)win->GetHandle();
#if wxUSE_UNICODE
   static wchar_t password_char = 0x25CF;
   static bool initialized = false;
   if (win->HasFlag(wxTE_PASSWORD) && !initialized)
   {
      password_char = (wchar_t)SendMessage(hwnd, EM_GETPASSWORDCHAR, 0, 0);
      initialized = true;
   }
#else
   const char password_char = '*';
#endif
   SendMessage(hwnd, EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR, active ? password_char : 0, 0);
#endif
   wxModifyStyle(win, active ? 0 : wxTE_PASSWORD, active ? wxTE_PASSWORD : 0);
   win->Refresh();
}