Password Field

 

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Use this on a field to require password access to a projector. Paramaters include the correct password, where to go if correct, and the number of allowed attempts.

--Copyright 1999 Chuck Neal --chuck@mediamacros.com --If you find this code helpful, send me an e-mail and let me know.  :-) property spriteNum, password, theMarker, tries, currentword, totaltries on beginSprite me   tries = 0   currentword = ""   sprite(spriteNum).member.text = ""   sprite(spriteNum).member.editable = true end on keyDown me   if tries = void then tries = 0   if the key = return then     dontpassevent     if currentword = password then       go theMarker     else       alert "Incorrect password."       tries = tries + 1       if tries >= totaltries then         alert "Invalid User"         quit       end if       currentword = ""       sprite(spriteNum).member.text = ""     end if   else     dontpassevent     if the keycode = 51 then       if currentword.char.count > 1 then         howMany = (currentword.char.count - 1)         put howmany         currentword = currentword.char[1..howmany]       else         currentword = ""       end if     else       if "1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-. " contains the key then         currentword = currentword & the key       end if     end if     theText = ""     if currentword.char.count > 0 then       repeat with x = 1 to currentword.char.count         thetext = thetext & "*"       end repeat     end if     sprite(spriteNum).member.text = thetext   end if    end on getPropertyDescriptionList me   p_list = [:]   addProp p_list, #password, [#format : #string, #default : "myPassword", #comment : "The password:"]   addProp p_list, #theMarker, [#format : #marker, #default : #next, #comment : "Where to go if correct:"]   addProp p_list, #totaltries, [#format : #integer, #default : 4, #comment : "Number of tries:"]   return p_list end on getBehaviorDescription me   return "Use this on a field to require password access to a projector.  Paramaters include the correct password, where to go if correct, and the number of allowed attempts." end