Copying cards between password protected standalones

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Fri Jul 27 21:55:21 EDT 2012


On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:23 PM, J. Landman Gay
<jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> On 7/27/12 1:32 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:

>> Is it even *possible* for one password protected standalone to copy a
>> card from another password protected standalone into itself?
>
> No, for a couple of reasons. First, standalones can't save changes to
> themselves. You could copy a card to one, but it would be lost when the app
> quits.

That part wouldn't be a problem--these apps are for output.  But . . .

> Even if that worked, password-protected stacks disallow copying for security
> reasons.


That's a problem.

>> But what about in iOS--I can hardly create a separate binary for each
>> user there, and including every possible card would create something
>> far to large.
>>
>
> Even if you could change the standalone and objects could be copied, iOS
> won't allow the app to change. Everything in the engine folder is read-only.

A memory of that is what triggered this.

*sigh*


Thank you very much, though.

Time to put my brain to work again . . .

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