How to hide user input in a console application?

General
1

Hello,

If I write the following in a Terminal window, the next typed characters are hidden (like for entering a password):
stty -echo
(re-enabled with “stty echo”).
In my Xojo console application, I tried “stdout.Write “stty -echo” [stdout.write EndOfLine]"” and “Print “stty -echo” [Print EndOfLine]"” (in bracket, optional tries). They just print the passed text without “executing” it. Why is that different?

2

Stdout.write and Print just send characters to the console window, the same way echo would do in the terminal.

3

OK, thanks.
When in comes to the Terminal, I can use commands and understand “grammar”, but the underlying mechanism is something I can’t understand as of now. How would I pass commands such as “stty -echo" from inside my console application?

4

You want an non echoing stdin?

5

Our StdinMBS class in MBS Xojo Util Plugin has an echo property you may want to try.

6

When my console application asks for a password, using the “Input” command, I want the entered password to be hidden from the screen (like with the usual Terminal app). I’m not sure how this is called, since I’m not a Unix expert.

7

As simple as StdinMBS.Echo=false (not even needed to use StdinMBS for all other interactions)!
Thank you!