Name: diC59631 Date: 11/13/97


After a TextField object setEchoChar to '*', setText
displays the string itself not the echo characters.
The echo character displays only when the user is
typing in the TextField. Program calling setText
will cause the TextField to display the text not
the echo characters.

The following code will defeat the setEchoChar method in
the TextField class:
        import java.awt.*;
        import java.awt.event.*;
        import java.applet.*;

        public class PasswordTest extends Applet implements
ActionListener {

                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
                {
                        String lab = ((MenuItem)e.getSource()).getLabel();
                        if (lab.equals("Test"))
                        {
                                tester.tfPassword.setText("This is a test");
                        }
                        else
                       if(lab.equals("Exit"))
                       {
                             System.exit(0);
                       }
                }
                PasswordTest()
                {
                }
                TextField tfPassword;
                Font font;
                static PasswordTest tester;
                MenuBar mb;
                public void init()
                {
                        setLayout(null);
                        font = new Font("Dialog", Font.PLAIN, 12);
                        tfPassword = new TextField("",50);
                        tfPassword.setFont(font);
                        tfPassword.setEchoChar('*');
                        add(tfPassword);
                        tfPassword.setBounds(10, 10, 150, 30);
                        Menu m = new Menu("File");

                        MenuItem mi1 = new MenuItem("Test");
                        mi1.addActionListener(this);
                        m.add(mi1);

                        MenuShortcut ms3 = new MenuShortcut(KeyEvent.VK_E);
                        MenuItem mi3 = new MenuItem("Exit", ms3);
                        mi3.addActionListener(this);
                        m.add(mi3);

                        mb = new MenuBar();
                        mb.add(m);
                }

                public static void main(String args[])
                {
                        Frame f = new Frame("testing");
                        tester = new PasswordTest();
                        f.add(tester);
                        tester.init();


                        f.setMenuBar(tester.mb);
                        f.setSize(200, 200);
                        f.setVisible(true);
                }

        }
I compiled this piece code on Sun Netra I5 machine which
has Solaris operating system. Then I ran this code, in the
File menu I selected Test, the plain text "This is a test"
shown in the tfPassword. Based on the code, the echo
characters "**************" should show in the tfPassword
field. The same piece of code runs fine on NT 4.0 and
Windows 95. This is the simplest piece of code that can
demonstrate the problem.


(Review ID: 19208)
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