Interlude.Input.Password
In Depth¶
Input.Password(label, placeholder: "", key: "", tooltip: "", helpText: "")
A masked text field, showing dots instead of characters as they are typed.
Be clear about what this does and does not give you. The answer comes back as plain text, and it is held in memory with the form's other remembered answers for the rest of the Dynamo session — pass rememberValues: false to Form.Show if that matters. Nothing is written to disk, and nothing is encrypted. The masking stops somebody reading the screen over a shoulder, which is the whole of its job.
There is no default value on purpose: a password baked into a saved graph is a password shared with everybody the graph is sent to.
The inputs are:
label(string) — Caption shown beside the field.placeholder(string, defaults to"") — Grey prompt shown while the field is empty.key(string, defaults to"") — Name of this answer in the results. Derived from the label when empty.tooltip(string, defaults to"") — Hover text.helpText(string, defaults to"") — A line of guidance shown under the field.
Returns element — The form element.
Search terms: password, secret, masked, credential.
About the Input nodes¶
The fields a user answers.
Every input returns an element describing the control, not the control itself, and every one takes the same three trailing options: key, which names the answer in the results dictionary; tooltip; and helpText. Leave key empty and it is derived from the label — convenient for a quick form, but give real keys to any graph you intend to keep, because renaming a label would otherwise rename the answer.
Choice inputs take the values themselves, not their display names. Selecting an option hands back the original object — a Revit element, a family type, whatever was put in — so the answer is usable directly instead of needing a lookup back from a string.
Example File¶
An example graph ships beside this page: Interlude.Input.Password.dyn
The form it builds:
