Multiple application instances-how prevent multiple file instances or file overwrite
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Mark, Thank for all your help. This feature is becoming a bit too much for my current schedule. Chances are that I will return to it at some point. However, for right now I am going to have to put this on the back burner because I need to generate some income (through freelance writing) and find a way to protect my Doc/View based content files (six are ready for posting) so that they cannot be edited and then misrepresented as the work of my company. Since setting the "read only" bit on the file will not be permanent enough, I thought I might save a flag with my original files then override DoSave to prevent saving if the flag is set. Another way might be to somehow embed the file in the program itself, so each content file distributed from my company comes with a program, again with DoSave = NULL in the Save As function or some such thing. This approach has the added benefit that I could distribute the content using Armadillo (which I use to provide 30 day trial functionality) which is not able to protect simple unzippers and non-executables. Since the second approach probably requires the completion of the first, it looks like that will be my starting point. Thank you again. Your posts were very educational, useful and well written. If you were on my team, I'll bet you could fix all of the problems I plan to spend the next 6 months beating my head against the in an afternoon. Thanks again. I hope you enjoy your "greetings seasons." Take the rest of the year off. Groff Schroeder
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." Richard Feynman, Minority Report to the Official Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Crash
lctrncs wrote:
Thanks again. I hope you enjoy your "greetings seasons." Take the rest of the year off.
You're welcome! I wish I could take the rest of the year off but I am about to release my own product (yeah, I said that last year at this time, and the year before...) which is 5 years in the making. I have to get it out...this living as a "starving artist" thing is getting old. At least I have the drums to beat out my aggressions :) Anyway, I may have missed the point of what you were trying to achieve. If it's protecting content then I would make the doc/view editors read-only and encrypt the content files so they can't be edited outside of your application. There's always a solution (I refuse to ever be convinced otherwise). Best of luck (or "break a leg"?) on your writing projects! Mark Salsbery
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lctrncs wrote:
Thanks again. I hope you enjoy your "greetings seasons." Take the rest of the year off.
You're welcome! I wish I could take the rest of the year off but I am about to release my own product (yeah, I said that last year at this time, and the year before...) which is 5 years in the making. I have to get it out...this living as a "starving artist" thing is getting old. At least I have the drums to beat out my aggressions :) Anyway, I may have missed the point of what you were trying to achieve. If it's protecting content then I would make the doc/view editors read-only and encrypt the content files so they can't be edited outside of your application. There's always a solution (I refuse to ever be convinced otherwise). Best of luck (or "break a leg"?) on your writing projects! Mark Salsbery
Drums!? My little band needs a drummer badly. Do you like Pink Floyd? Do you live anywhere near Colorado? When you get close with your product, send me a version and I will happily test it for you. I once turned down a full time job teaching college for a six-week gigue testing network protocol analyzers for HP. I stayed a year and a half, then came back as a full consultant. Those were the days! Testing is specialty of mine and since you have been so helpful, I would gladly punish your software for you. Bwaahahahahhaaaa! If you send me your email address through that web site I sent you to, we can both avoid public postings. Best of luck. Groff PS: Thanks for the heads up on the download error. I experienced the same thing and learned that the problem occurs when the complete file does not download. It is about 5.5 meg, so it is probably easy to try to start early. I will probably put up a little warning page in my "free time." GS
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." Richard Feynman, Minority Report to the Official Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Crash