Authoring the User Interface for Password Input

Windows Installer

Authoring the User Interface for Password Input

For each password that must be entered by the user, add an edit control on a dialog that stores the value of the password into a property. This edit control should have the Password Control Attribute. This specifies that the property entered is a password and prevents the installer from writing the property to the log file.

The control attributes for the password edit control are msidbControlAttributesVisible, msidbControlAttributesEnabled, and msidbControlAttributesPasswordInput (1 + 2 + 2097152). The X, Y, Width, Height, and Control_Next depend on the layout of the control on the dialog.

Control Table

Dialog_ Control_ Type X Y Width Height Attributes Property Text Control_Next Help
MyDialog TestUserPasswordEdit Edit 25 120 300 20 2097155 TESTUSERPASSWORD Cancel

 

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