In a UI of mine, I have a PasswordField like so (urm the one at the bottom!):
I want a user to be able to check the checkbox you see in the picture and have all "secret" password characters displayed. Not much different from the option we get from many modern password-asking UI:s floating around. However, I cannot find anything in the JavaFX API that let me do that?
If my worries hold true, then I would like to use a TextField that display the last key pressed for only half a second or until next key is pressed, and then he shall mask all previous user input. This would produce a cool animation effect that one can see sometimes in modern UI:s. However, is there a way for me to get hold of the OS dependent (I think it is OS dependent??) password echo character I should use?
If it is not possible to get that OS dependent character, then I'd be glad to use the character you see on the picture (JavaFX on a Windows 8 machine). What is the UTF-8 code point for this stranger?