[Feature Request] Enable a custom obscuring character to be set for password fields

[nirav4273]

In TextFormField need to set password field value from dot to asterisk .
As below image.

[shyndman]

Take a look at TextField.obscureText.

Also, there's an active community on StackOverflow that can generally help with this kind of issue. Take a look!

[nirav4273]

@shyndman It's set text into dot format. It's bool. I need to change from dot to asterisk format as showing in image. I need way to change default password text format.

https://www.wufoo.com/html5/password-type/
Please check above link

[shinriyo]

@nirav4273
I want to replace dot to asterisk too.
Not U+2022 BULLET characters.

@timsneath It is not resolved.

[timsneath]

Ah, so you're asking to change the character used for masking passwords? That's not a property we expose in Flutter. It's controlled by obscuringCharacter, which is a constant value in the RenderEditable class.

I'll reopen this issue and mark it as a feature request, but to set expectations, this is a fairly obscure request (e.g. the web doesn't support this as a standard feature either), so the added complexity may not justify the feature. In the meantime, the workaround would be to clone the TextField class and modify it to use a different RenderEditable class that has the value you want.

[shinriyo]

@timsneath

Ah, so you're asking to change the character used for masking passwords?

Yes, we are.
Thank you.

[jargalbat]

thank you very much :)

[shinriyo]

Thanks a lot

[aditya-mahajan96]

Change password image in flutter from circle to * by just entering obscuringCharacter and shape you wanted eg -

obscuringCharacter: '*',
obscureText: true,

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