An option in the question dialog to hide the input

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An issue I've had with the question dialog is that there's never been an option to hide the input - i.e. only showing a certain character instead of the actual input - for the dialog. Yet that feature is available on the standard textbox widget.

An alternative for users who need this kind of feature - to, for example, hide a password inputted into a question dialog - would be to create another window with a textbox configured to hide its input, and a pushbutton to return the textbox's value. I've done this before - it's a very drawn-out method of doing a task that could be quite easily implemented.

My solution for this would be going into the files, finding what is called when you start a question dialog, and editing the passable arguments to allow for a user to hide the input of the dialog, and then testing to see if it works without changing the Tk code.

I think that it should be relatively easy to implement - maybe taking the best part of a day, maybe less, to complete (including tests) - and if I can implement it on my copy of guizero, I'd like to open a pull request and see if you all are fine with the changes.

Anyway, just comment on this if you think it'd be a nice to have feature, and if it gets approval, I'll start working on it.

[martinohanlon]

guizero uses the tkinter simpledialog for the question popup.

simpledialog does not support masking (i.e. hiding the input).

My recommendation (as you suggest) would be to create a function which uses the standard guizero components, Window, TestBox, PushButton to create a dialog which is specific for your needs.