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login

by Jeremy Smith

17 Sep 2005 (Updated 07 Jul 2006)

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Description

This is a login dialog which replaces all characters typed into the password area with asterixes. Both the login and password are returned by the function as strings.

Note: The password is only visually hidden. While the dialog is active it is stored in the Userdata of the password edit box.

Acknowledgements

This submission has inspired the following:
TxtMsg Create, passwordEntryDialog

MATLAB release

MATLAB 7.0.4 (R14SP2)

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Everyone's Tags	asterix, example, gui, gui tools, hidden, login, password
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Comments and Ratings (10)
19 Mar 2006	ANAND RANGARAJAN	GOOD ONE, GOT WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR
23 May 2006	Nhan Nguyen Thanh	Thank you very much!
10 Jun 2006	Ankul Batra	nice work Jeremy :).......
26 Jul 2006	Athiya Sulthana	My PC has Matlab ver 7.0.1 and this does not work...Dispalys an error and could not understand how to trouble shoot it. Hope u would help me in this regard....
28 Jul 2006	Jeremy Smith	There is a problem with this script for versions of Matlab before 7.1. The functionality of the 'cellfun' function changes so if you delete lines 45-48 it'll work as it should. Those lines are just responsible for some error checking.
18 Mar 2007	Luigi Rosa	Nice and useful application
30 Aug 2007	Hoi Wong	'Esc' key counts as a blank character. Is there any way to avoid that? Thanks for the great program
28 Feb 2008	Austin Karathra	hi this is a good work. But i cant run the code and it doesnt work for me in matlab6p1. is it require an another version.
21 Jul 2008	Engr.Mohsin Khan	its help full but how to interface it with other GUI its good but how to utilizes with others
22 May 2009	Ashwini Deshpande	Good one, it helped me a lot ..

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Updates
26 Sep 2005	Added improvements and cleaned it up. See the script for a list of changes.
07 Jul 2006	-Tab no longer triggers the OK button in the password box -Improved the script help -Removed horizontal alignment from buttons -Added the option to display only the password box
07 Jul 2006	-Tab no longer triggers the OK button in the password box -Improved the script help -Removed horizontal alignment from buttons -Added the option to display only the password box

Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
gui tools	Jeremy Smith	22 Oct 2008 08:00:17
example	Jeremy Smith	22 Oct 2008 08:00:17
login	Jeremy Smith	22 Oct 2008 08:00:17
password	Jeremy Smith	22 Oct 2008 08:00:17
asterix	Jeremy Smith	22 Oct 2008 08:00:17
hidden	Jeremy Smith	22 Oct 2008 08:00:17
gui	Jeremy Smith	22 Oct 2008 08:00:17

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