On 12/30/2015 5:18 AM, Richmond wrote:
one thing that is very odd is 'mcEncrypt';
firstly because it maybe the only thing in LiveCode that
betrays LiveCode's ancestry in MetaCard,
It was part of the original MC 1.0 and was used only internally to
encrypt the entry from an ask dialog. The encrypted form was returned to
the script. There was no way to obtain the original unencrypted text entry.
and
secondly because the Documentation (7.1) tells us
nothing beyond that it is 'Reserved for internal use'.
That 'Reserved' is all jolly well and good, but made
me feel a bit strange having read the entry for
"ask p_assword" [there's another way of getting round things, even if,
for Americans,
it might seem a bit 'fruity']
where it says:
'get mcEncrypt(it)'
At some point the dialog behavior changed and the engine now returns
only the raw text. It is now necessary for the script rather than the
engine to handle the encryption if that's desired. When the behavior
changed, mcEncrypt was made public and put into the dictionary.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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