Masking QLineEdit text

Question

I am using PyQt4 QLineEdit widget to accept password. There is a setMasking property, but not following how to set the masking character.<

Answer 1

It's quite easy using Qt: you would need to define a new style and return new character from the styleHint method whenever QStyle::SH_LineEdit_PasswordCharacter constant is queried. Below is an example:

class LineEditStyle : public QProxyStyle
{
public:
    LineEditStyle(QStyle *style = 0) : QProxyStyle(style) { }

    int styleHint(StyleHint hint, const QStyleOption * option = 0,
                  const QWidget * widget = 0, QStyleHintReturn * returnData = 0 ) const
    {
        if (hint==QStyle::SH_LineEdit_PasswordCharacter)
            return '%';
        return QProxyStyle::styleHint(hint, option, widget, returnData);
    }
};

lineEdit->setEchoMode(QLineEdit::Password);
lineEdit->setStyle(new LineEditStyle(ui->lineEdit->style()));

now the problem is that pyqt doesn't seem to know anything about QProxyStyle; it seem to be not wrapped there, so you're stuck, unless you would want to wrap it yourself.

regards