>I have a grid for maintaining users with the usual stuff, name password, etc. I have the passwords in a text box on the grid with the PasswordChar set to '*' and there is a button on the form that changes the PasswordChar to '' so the supervisor can view the passwords when needed. (No grips please, this is a customer demand.)
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>The only thing the customer doesn't like is that the length of the password is visible in the number of '*' in the text box. I can think of a few complex ways to solve this but does anyone have a simple way?
>TIA

Pad the password with a known character, like underscore (_).

Padr(Password,20,"_")

then trim them off when saving or displaying.

But Borislav solution is easier.