an interesting challenge

[Terry Judd]

On 14/01/10 10:51 AM, "Derek" <runrev at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> 4. a secret text file gets generated and downloaded to the drive along with
> the standalone, the standalone finds it, reads it and deletes it? (no, the
> user might be confused and delete it before they launch the standalone)

There was some discussion over the last couple of days about the potential
evils of Flash shared objects but I guess you could use them to your
advantage in this case. If you included a small Flash object on the
referring page that created a shared object with a name that reflected its
relationship to both your standalone and the host website then you could get
the downloaded Rev standalone to check for its existence amongst all the
other shared objects when it started up for the first time.

Still far from ideal and will definitely fail if the user downloads on one
computer and installs on another. Seems like what you really want is a
server-based routine that packages (zips) the standalone with a text file
containing the required information on the fly and delivers the customised
version to the user.

Terry...