Trial software and registering

[Karen]

Thanks to everyone for their replies on this - and especially Malte.  I'll
need to start looking at building this in.

And thanks for the point about password protecting the stack - I wondered
what you could do to protect the code.

Karen


On 16/3/05 4:41 pm, "use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com"
<use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:11:33 +0100
> From: Malte Brill <revolution at derbrill.de>
> Subject: Re: Trial software and registering
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Message-ID: <EB86D0F4-961C-11D9-83A3-0030659A795C at derbrill.de>
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> 
> Hi Karen,
> 
> You could get the date when your app is started the first time, write
> it to a file and display a registering dialogue 30 days later.
> Personally I prefer a "crippleware" scheme (disable certain
> functionality like save) over a time based registration scheme but
> that´s a matter of personal preference I think. ;-)
> 
> Concerning a password generator you might want to take a look at this
> stack. There are many other ways to do it, but the stack should help
> getting you started.
> 
> http://www.derbrill.de/revstack/passwort.rev.zip
> 
> Scripts are commented.
> When it comes to building your app make sure you password protect the
> stack (otherwise people can read through the code if the stack is
> opened in a text editor)
> .
> If you have any questions feel free to ask. :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Malte