Hi! This is my first time submitting to this forum, hopes that I will get good respond :) Ok, heres what I need - I am just starting to learn VB6 and have nearly finished my project. But I gotta know that just by using the normal If..Else for a password is a no, no in programming, and find out that theres a better way and that is 'Encapsulation'. But I don't have any idea of how to do it, or actually whats all about. Is there a code sample lying anywhere on the WWW? Or if possible, anyone could supply me with a sample? I don't need a really good encryption, just how its done, will be greatly appreciated. Cheers, aboka

Beautiful Questin i guess u r using a textfield to get the passsword from. Now a very simplee option is to assign a value to textfiled say txtfield1 from the properties(I guess u know this). Now if u want to work with if and else then here is a solution 1) Create A text field 2) trap the on key pressed or gettext method of the object(textfield) 3) private sub onkeypress() if textfield1.text = "" then textfield1.text="*" else textfield1.text = textfield1.text + "*" end if end sub bye if this works reply me aat raviop@rediffmail.com

The easiest way i have found if you dont care about 100% security, is in your text box set the password char to * or whatever you want then do your else if or however you would like to store the actual password like in a database or something.