From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2005-06-23T11:00:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby gem highline problem

Le 22 juin 05, � 08:56, James Edward Gray II a �crit :

> On Jun 22, 2005, at 5:17 AM, sujeet kumar wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>    I want to take some data at runtime from user and want data to be
>> not seen by others. I used
>> "password = ask("Enter your password:  ") {  |q| q.echo = "*"} " to
>> take password from user in console(he types password in console) . Now
>> I want to take password from TkEntry and want that it too should be
>> echoed in TkEntry.
>>    What should I do?
>
> I fear the subject of your message is a little misleading.  HighLine 
> can't help you with this, you need a TK guru to offer a suggestion...
>
I am no Tk guru, but I'll make a suggestion:

TkEntry.new {
   show "*"
   pack
}

should do what you. Have a look at 'man n entry' to see all the options 
available for the entry widget.

Hope it helps,
Guillaume.