This is what I was afraid of. Well I think the form callback function fires whenever you enter a character. I have to test that to see if this is the case If this is true, then you could grab the input fromt he form field and append it to a string or list and replace the current entry with a * character. You would have to account for leading * chars on each go around. this might work. Sounds complicated but it isn't really. Now that I am thinking about tis a bit more, the other way of doing this might be to write a quick app that provides the login UI in VB, Tcl/Tk or Java and launch it via IPCSKILL. Hmmmm .... Andreas Kulik Senior Applications Engineer 770 225 0405 www.ptc.com ________________________________ From: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Elder Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 9:41 PM To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: SKILL forms - password fields Hi Andreas, I don't think that this is possible using a normal string entry field. There is no event activated by single characters. However, you could possibly create an on-screen "keyboard" using the form grid feature to get around the problem. Let us all know how you end up achieving this. Cheers, Dave Kulik, Andreas wrote: I am trying to write a form field that requires a user to provide a password. I can't seem to find a form option that will force fields to display * characters. Anyone have a function in SKILL that does this? Andy Andreas Kulik Senior Applications Engineer I*Center East PTC 770 225 0405 <http://www.ptc.com/company/tl/index.htm>