Characters Visibility

Hello! It seems like you are looking to enhance the security of your password input in VB6 by making the characters entered by the user not visible. In VB6, there isn't a built-in feature to directly hide characters in an InputBox like you would see in modern password input fields on websites.

However, a common approach to achieve this is by creating a custom dialog form where you simulate the behavior of a password input field by displaying asterisks (*) instead of the actual characters entered by the user. You can then capture the user's input without displaying it on the screen.

Here's a simplified example of how you can achieve this in VB6:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim password As String
    password = MaskedInputBox("Enter the Password:")
    MsgBox "You entered: " & password
End Sub

Function MaskedInputBox(prompt As String) As String
    Dim frmInput As New Form
    Dim txtPassword As New TextBox
    Dim btnOK As New CommandButton
    
    frmInput.Caption = "Password Input"
    frmInput.Width = 200
    frmInput.Height = 100
    
    txtPassword.PasswordChar = "*"
    txtPassword.Width = 120
    txtPassword.Top = 20
    txtPassword.Left = 20
    
    btnOK.Caption = "OK"
    btnOK.Default = True
    btnOK.Width = 60
    btnOK.Top = 50
    btnOK.Left = 70
    
    frmInput.Controls.Add txtPassword
    frmInput.Controls.Add btnOK
    
    frmInput.Show
    txtPassword.SetFocus
    
    frmInput.Hide
    MaskedInputBox = txtPassword.Text
    
    Unload frmInput
End Function

In this example, the `MaskedInputBox` function creates a custom input dialog with a text box that displays asterisks for each character entered by the user. Once the user enters the password and clicks "OK", the actual password string is returned for further processing.

I hope this information helps you achieve the desired character visibility behavior for password input in your VB6 application. If you have any more questions or need further clarification, feel free to ask!