Protecting stacks

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Fri Nov 2 19:54:17 EDT 2012


you could encrypt the text, store in custom properties, convert to an
array, and decrypt and display into a locked field on card open.


On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Peter Bogdanoff <bogdanoff at me.com> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm needing to protect both the scripts and the text in fields for a
> project that is essentially a book--many pages with text. The author of the
> book is, well very concerned about piracy.
>
> I see that in the Standalone Application Settings I can protect scripts of
> stack files in the application. However, I have stack files that are NOT in
> the application--the app just serves to launch files. How do I protect the
> scripts in those files?
>
> And generally, how would I stop someone from opening stack files in their
> version of the IDE and having their way with my text? Or, just opening the
> files with a text editor?
>
> I can image when the files launch in the LiveCode IDE, a password is
> asked, and a global is set to allow authoring. But what about when it's
> opened as a raw text file?
>
> Peter Bogdanoff
> UCLA
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