Saving a standalone

Robert Brenstein rjb at rz.uni-potsdam.de
Sun Jun 30 17:00:01 EDT 2002


>In deference to Shari, I think she's talking about protecting the *data* in
>the stack, not the scripts. Even a password protected and cantModify-ed
>stack can still be opened in MetaCard and the cards freely viewed.
>
>Shari, if this is your concern, my suggestion would be to keep card 1 of
>your data stack empty, and keep your data on cards 2+. Then, set the script
>of all cards to go to card 1 on preOpenCard. Since they can't view the
>scripts, this will keep most people from viewing the cards that contain the
>data, and only the most determined hackers will be able to figure out what's
>going on and get around it.
>
>Ken Ray
>Sons of Thunder Software
>Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

Another alternative would be to use custom properties to store data. 
If I am not mistaken, they are password-protected with the scripts.

Robert



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