Password input with others then asterisks

[PhTe]

I have created a TextField which acts as a password input field

TextField {
    id: passwordInput
    echoMode: TextInput.Password
    style: TextFieldStyle {
        background: Rectangle {
            radius: 6
            border.color: "#AAA"
        }
    }
}

This works so far, except that the font i use seems not compatible with password fields and it shows only small boxes instead of asterisks which looks very ugly.

So is it possible to show other characters instead of *, for example a # or an X or something like this?

My first try was to handle the keys.onpressed event and set the characters in the text field manually, but i use a virtual keyboard and there is a bug (QTBUG-40803) which prevent qt from receiving key events from virtual keyboards in text inputs. So this does not work...

Does anyone know a solution for this?

[Leonardo]

Try using a TextInput instead. Then you can set the passwordCharacter property.

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-textinput.html#passwordCharacter-prop

[PhTe]

@Leonardo Yeah, that works. Thank you.