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Forum: Geek Forum Topic: i need help on my program... started by: humanoid Posted by humanoid on Jul. 08 2002,04:38
i just created my first encryption program in C and my friends want a copy of it. but i can't put my name on the program cause my compiler won;t allow it. and knowing my friends, they will just call the program their own and redistribute it all over the net.i want some way of saying it's mine. the program opens in DOS and i just want my name on the top. do you know of any tricks or different ways to print something on there. i want to keep this compiler ::please help:: Posted by Wiley on Jul. 08 2002,04:44
It doesn't matter ...your friends will just use a hex editor to change the name that shows up to their name ...or something like their name with the same amount of characters. That's why people go for required registration after 5 uses and then charge people for the app ...then let them do with it whatever they want with it.
Posted by forumwhore on Jul. 08 2002,05:52
They may not look at every line.copywrite it to your self, not that it'd work. You might get lucky for free. Posted by RadioActive on Jul. 08 2002,05:58
you can alway do something wierd that would make it hard for them to edit. like for example do something like save alphabet as one string as then cut letters out to spell something out. it will be a lot of extra code and hard to fake. i've seen that done before. i think the best example i can give you is mid() command in mirc. i think that's what it is. i know there's function like that in VB too, so there's gotta be one in C
Posted by forumwhore on Jul. 08 2002,06:23
I don't know how it works, but I know what it can do.
Posted by humanoid on Jul. 10 2002,15:17
this might make me a l4m0r, but how do you do a required registration after a certain amount of time?
Posted by Wiley on Jul. 10 2002,15:34
write a key to the registry and incriment it down with every use. If the key exists and it's set to 0 the app won't run, it'll just say Please Register. A variation could write to an ini file but that is too obvious. Just an idea ...although it my bloat the original program.
Posted by humanoid on Jul. 10 2002,15:54
i dont use regedit often..so um...can you like take me through how to set it up to increment down.all i use regedit (so far) for is to tweak my XP system. <sigh> ...damn im a l4m0r. </sigh> Posted by Wiley on Jul. 10 2002,16:38
RegCreateKeyEx will create a key and RegSetValueEx will change an existing key, how you go about getting a value that is one less then the current value may take some creativity ...I've seen it done on various share ware apps but I have never done it myself.
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