Lift

Here’s a small snippet showing you how to add custom field types to a single LiftScreen:

object MyScreen extends LiftScreen { 
  val password = new Field { 
    type ValueType = String 
    override def name = "Password" 
    override implicit def manifest = buildIt[String] 
    override def default = "" 
    override def toForm: Box[NodeSeq] = SHtml.password(is, set _) 
  } 
} 

If you need to use something in multiple LiftScreens, you can register a global form builder.

Now, if you want a password field, there is a password method in LiftScreen, you can use it like this:

val pass=  password("My Password field", "")

Pretty easy :)

There are several other helper methods worth looking at, just check

framework/web/webkit/src/main/scala/net/liftweb/http/LiftScreen.scala

Using editable_?

If you would like to use editable_? the abode example needs a little change, you need to change

override implicit def manifest = buildIt[String]
for
lazy val manifest = buildIt[ValueType]

Complete example is:

  val name = new Field  {
    type ValueType = String
    override def name = "Name"
    override def default = "Diego"
    lazy val manifest = buildIt[ValueType]
    override def editable_? = false
  }

override implicit def manifest = buildIt[String]