How do i hide the pointer of guiCreateEdit()?

[tommymaster]

Hi. I made a script, in which i created an edit box, then set it's alpha to 0, and i would like to output the text of the invisible edit box, by dxDrawText. This is what i have came up so far:

Edit boxes:

function createLoginEditBoxes()
	usernameField = guiCreateEdit(px/2 - field["width"]/2, py/2 - field["height"]/2 - 150/y*py, field["width"], field["height"], "asd", false)
	guiSetAlpha (usernameField, 0)
	passwordField = guiCreateEdit(px/2 - field["width"]/2, py/2 - field["height"]/2 - 50/y*py, field["width"], field["height"], "asd", false)
	guiSetAlpha (passwordField, 0)
	guiEditSetMasked (passwordField, true)
end

		dxDrawImage (px/2 - field["width"]/2, py/2 - field["height"]/2 - 50/y*py, field["width"], field["height"], "files/inactive.png")
		if isElement (passwordField) then
			dxDrawText(guiGetText(passwordField), px/2 - field["width"]/2 + 10, py/2 - field["height"]/2 - 30/y*py, _, _, _, 1/x*px, "default", "left", "center")
		end

The problem is, that the edit boxe's text pointer will not set it's alpha to 0. So the pointer of the edit box remains visible, and protrudes into the text.
Screenshot of it:

-Also, the edit box (passwordField) is set to masked, but the text in it is not, and the drawText will not mask the text in the editbox.

[itHyperoX]

Because that is gui, not dx.

 password = guiGetText(passwordField)

passwordText = string.gsub(password, "%C", "•")

dxDrawText(passwordText)

 

[tommymaster]

ok thanks, but how do i hide the ponter of editbox?

Edited December 9, 2017 by tommymaster

[Ahmed Ly]

local masked = string.rep('●',#guiGetText(text))