User Guide

1228 TextInput component
TextInput.password
Availability
Flash Player 6 (6.0.79.0).
Edition
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
textInputInstance.password
Description
Property; a Boolean value indicating whether the text field is a password field (true) or not
(
false). If this property is true, the text field is a password text field and hides the input
characters. If this property is
false, the text field is not a password text field. The default
value is
false.
Example
The following example sets the password property to display an asterisk in place of the
character that the user enters in the TextInput instance called
my_ti. It also sets maxChars to
limit the maximum number of characters the user can enter to eight.
You must first drag a TextInput component to the Stage and give it an instance name of
my_ti; then add the following code to Frame 1.
/**
Requires:
- TextInput instance on Stage (instance name: my_ti)
*/
var my_ti:mx.controls.TextInput;
my_ti.maxChars = 8;
my_ti.password = true;