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Basic Flash Password Protection

By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com

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With the Input Text field selected, select Password from the display type dropdown (usual options are Single Line, Multiline, and Multiline no wrap). This is an added security option that causes all characters entered to be displayed as asterisks (*) instead of as alpha characters.

Click the icon to display the bounding box (the little box with horizontal lines), and then in the Var field, type the name of a variable by which you’ll reference the value of your password.

Don’t confuse this with an instance name; the instance name would be referring to the actual text box itself, but the variable is used to refer to the text entered into the input field. So if I typed “purple monkeys” into the input field, then password=”purple monkeys”.

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