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From: WarDemonZ on 17 Jan 2008 08:32 Hi everyone, iv only just joined this forum and am relatively new to Director and all this kinda stuff and the 'help' files in the program seem pretty diar in my opinion, and never really have what im looking for. basically im making an interactive fitness program, and what i want is for the users to have their own login data and password etc that gets saved onto its own file somewhere when the user creates it, iv been told this is doable by a lecturer but he doesnt know himself how to do it. i was wondering if any of you very knowledgeable people might know how to make this, or the basics of it, or a book or website thats good for this kinda thing. Many thanks in advance Moza
From: Mike Blaustein on 17 Jan 2008 08:48 Using just the built in stuff that comes with Director, you can use getPref and setPref to store your login info. If you want something that is a little more robust amd easier to use, then I would recommend looking up BuddyAPI www.mods.com.au/budapi It will let you do things like check to see if a file exists - baFileExists() as well as read from/ write to ini files. baReadIni() baWriteIni() If you want to encrypt the file, it has functions to do that as well
From: Dean Utian on 18 Jan 2008 07:08 WarDemonZ wrote: > Hi everyone, iv only just joined this forum and am relatively new to Director > and all this kinda stuff and the 'help' files in the program seem pretty diar > in my opinion, and never really have what im looking for. > > basically im making an interactive fitness program, and what i want is for the > users to have their own login data and password etc that gets saved onto its > own file somewhere when the user creates it, iv been told this is doable by a > lecturer but he doesnt know himself how to do it. i was wondering if any of you > very knowledgeable people might know how to make this, or the basics of it, or > a book or website thats good for this kinda thing. > Hi Moza, Have a look at this demo: http://nonlinear.openspark.com/tips/text/password/index.htm Show's how you have to enter a password to continue with the application. You can download the source file. I have an application that does what you describe. I use a similar thing to the above demo. I save the password in an encrypted text file that the EXE loads at the start. I use Buddy Web to create this encrypted text file and to load it at the start. If you're new to Director and Lingo, the code may take a bit of time to absorb. But, the above demo definitely will do what you've described. regards Dean Director Lecturer / Consultant / Director Enthusiast http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director http://www.multimediacreative.com.au email: d.utian(a)unsw.edu.au
From: Dean Utian on 18 Jan 2008 07:15 Hi again, Just to add something, with Buddy Web, you can save external text files as just text, or you can save lists (both of which can be encrypted). Having a list would work better for your login if you have usernames and passwords. You list may be: [#user1:"password1", #user1:"password2"] The above is a property list. More on lists can be found at: http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director/Lingo/lists.asp In the list example I gave, you could have 2 fields in your login page, one to allow the user to enter a username, the other the password associated with that username. In this case a property list is valuable. You could even use the username data in Director to restrict access - so may have an admin login for full access and a visitor login for restricted access, regards Dean Director Lecturer / Consultant / Director Enthusiast http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director http://www.multimediacreative.com.au email: d.utian(a)unsw.edu.au
From: WarDemonZ on 20 Jan 2008 06:03 Hey, thanks you two ill have a test of both of these methods a little later on, but from what iv read so far they both sound great and just what i need, thanks again. Moza
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