On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Björnke von Gierke <b...@mac.com> wrote: > > Make standalone with a custom property that contains dummy string, for > example 16 chars >long. Now use a stack, script or other means to find that dummy string in the >standalone, and >replace it with a "proper" license string that is also 16 chars long. Finally, >your code in the >standalone checks for the license string cprop, whenever the user enters his >credentials. The >standalone is now custom-coded for your customer, and no second one exists. >Pretty easy to >workaround
Thank you (and everyone else!). And this really gets to the crux of it: anything that comes out of the compiler is either in the clear, or encrypted. If I can edit it like that, so can anyone else. If it's encrypted, neither can I. So I'm asking the wrong question . . . I suppose I have to look at how compilation actually works. Perhaps if I go under the hood, I can look at the order in which things are compiled, set a button or two so that they come at the end (or at least on the last card, save the state before that card is hit, and then cycle through load, change button script, finish; load . . . The more I think about it, not hard-coding may not be as disastrous as I had first thought (there were discussions some months ago; attorneys are particularly adept at rationalizing stealing software). It looks like I'm going to have public/private keys for each user anyway (wonderfully built in to livecode!) One of the messages that decrypts at runtime will have the attorney name, bar (law license) number, address, and program serial number, all of which appear in the output--with the name, and serial number actually appearing on the copyright notice on each page of output. Using someone else's key will also put their name and address on the output, which is only useful for filing with the court . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
