Delphi - TEdit / TMaskEdit not displaying Asterisk (*) Passwordchar

Question

I'm using Delphi XE3 for VCL application development. I'm having TMaskEdit field in my form and i have set its PasswordChar property as Asterisk ( * ) . But when i execute the application it's displaying password character as Dot (.) instead of Asterisk ( * ).

Please help me on this.

Answer 1

Try this

SendMessage(MaskEdit1.Handle, EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR, Ord('*'), 0);

You can put this on your FormCreate event or anywhere