[pmmail-list] Password entry fields character changed

Brian Morrison pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
Fri, 30 May 2003 14:40:54 +0100


On Fri, 30 May 2003 09:24:17 -0400, PMMail 2000 wrote:

>On Fri, 30 May 2003 10:42:05 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
>
>>Any ideas why? Cosmetic, but it makes you wonder what is going on in
>>the code.
>
>Brian,
>
>The standard in Windows XP is to use the 'pipe' character or large
>'dots' for password masking vs. the asterisks in previous versions of
>Windows. Peter did correct display problems related to Windows XP in
>this release and that is likely the reason for the change.

I see, that's odd because the WIn XP login screen gives me large round
dots and not the pipe character. But that's MS for you.

-- 
Brian Morrison                                       bdm@fenrir.org.uk
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