Masking password in QTreeView

[DmitryNik]

Hello!

I need to display bullets instead of actual password's signs in QTreeView's item. For this purpose I created own delegate: QLineEdit with echo mode 'Password'. Yes, for input it works perfectly. But here is a pitfall: setModelData -method. It will always display an actual data. My question is: Is any smart way to mask the password in QTreeView? Is it possible?

Thank you for your answers beforehand.

[DmitryNik]

OK, I thought about that. And here is result: actual password will be copied into internal variable and instead of letters shall be put bullets "•"(alt + 0149).
For instance: "Hello!" - "••••••". So, it's just a decoration for an user.
I didn't see any smart ways to do that.

[DmitryNik]

Here is another problem... Instead of bullets, QTreeView shows question-marks.
Here is the code:

item.setText(QString::fromUtf8("\x0095"));

item.setText(QString::fromUtf8("\x0095"));

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Guys, do you have any ideas, how it can be fixed?

[ChrisW67]

The character you are trying to get is 149 in the Windows CP 1252 code page. Its equivalent Unicode code point is U+2022 BULLET (http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf). The UTF-8 encoding of U+2022 is three bytes E2 80 A2 (in hex, see http://people.w3.org/rishida/tools/conversion/ for useful tool).
So, you could use any of these:

QChar bullet(0x2022);
QString bullet = QString::fromStdWString(L"\x2022");
QString bullet = QString::fromUtf8("\xe2\x80\xa2");

QChar bullet(0x2022);
QString bullet = QString::fromStdWString(L"\x2022");
QString bullet = QString::fromUtf8("\xe2\x80\xa2");

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depending on whether you want a single char or a string

[DmitryNik]

Thank you! It works.