>i seem to remeber there was a password font for that (named password(?)) seeting the box to that font, shows all you type as '*'.
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>greetings,
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>vincent

Unfortunately, FPD/FPW didn't have a PasswordChar property as VFP does. What I did was set the fill color (backcolor in VFP) of the text box to black so that the characters couldn't be seen. Kludgy? Yep, but it seemed the easiest solution.