The program does have an installer and uninstaller, so leaving things
behind shouldn't be a problem. I'm surprised no one else shares my
co-workers' willies -- everyone is scared of doing something as silly as
relying on souped-up cookies to implement a database.
-Make Hawley
Sam Thorne wrote:
Just as long as you document it somewhere or off the option to
uninstall, so that when someone actually is deleting things for a good
reason, they can be sure they really are removing the whole
application, including the archiver and it's backup.
John Mark Hawley schrieb:
I'm working on a CD product that needs to store a lot of data locally
for easy lookup. Before your eyes glaze over and you point me at
Zinc, know that this poor little product needs to run on OS 9, OSX,
and Windows. Zinc doesn't do OS 9.
But, aha, local shared objects! We can use them! Sure we can, but
then there's a problem that some wiseguy could wipeout our entire
database by clicking around in the Flash plugin settings for a good
long time.
So: the tentative plan says we could run a little executable via an
fscommand at startup that checks to see if the LSO's are in good
order, and archives them elsewhere if so. If they've been hosed, the
little executable would un-archive the last backup and put them back
in the right location.
This sounds a little a rinky-dink, but it seems a heck of a lot
easier than wrestling with a custom director wrapper and a real
database. Just how icky does this sound to everyone? Anyone ever
attempt something similar?
Regards,
Sam Thorne
Interaction Design
Web: http://www.native.com/
Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970
Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971
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