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I know with an Entry widget, in Tkinter, you can do this:

Entry.config(show="*")

and it will show asterisks instead of whatever you type.

However, I would like to do the same thing with a Text widget, but there is no show option to configure for Text widgets. Is there any way to do this in a Text widget? It'll mean a lot less work for me if there is.

The reason it will be less work is because I have lots of custom functionality and customizations set up for my Text widget class, and I don't want to have to reprogram it all over again for an Entry widget, when a one-line Text widget works just fine in its place (other than maybe this feature). Text and Entry widgets have different ways to access indexes and such, and these are quite involved. My customizations make it so you can do such as press ctrl+left to skip back a word, and all kinds of stuff like that (and complicated stuff not like that, too, which may or may not have to do with indexes).

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No, the text widget has no such feature. You would have to implement it yourself, and I'm guessing it would be very difficult to make it work.

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Thanks for the tip. I'm thinking about just using a wingding font for it or something. I don't know anyone who can actually read those. Or, I could use a font that has things that look like asterisks for every character. Or, I could just make the font size really small and unreadable. Or, I could make the background and foreground very close to each other.

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