posted 22 years ago
Do you mean that you want to block out the letters that they type, like when you enter a password?
In a console you would not get the input from System.in until they pressed enter, so you would NOT get a chance to mess with it at all.
Consider a small JOptionPane using the showInputDialog and have the input go into a JPasswordField component.
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