Mike,
One of my applications always gets the date and time from my Internet server.
If your users will always have an Internet connection, you could use this:
--somewhere in the initialization routine:
global gTimeServerURL ,gTimeOnServer, gGetTimeCallID
if gTimeServerURL <> empty then --get server time off the net
gTimeOnServer = empty --this will be set to the string returned by
gTimeServerURL, e.g. "2004-12-31 00:00:00"
gGetTimeCallID = getNetText(gTimeServerURL) --exitFrame will watch this and
when getNetText is done, will set gTimeOnServer to the string returned by the
server
end if
--in exitFrame:
if (gTimeOnServer = empty) and (gTimeServerURL <> empty) then --it hasn't
been set yet since the last time user clicked Submit
global gGetTimeCallID --this was set when getNetText(gTimeServerURL) was
called
if netDone(gGetTimeCallID) then
gTimeOnServer = TrimTabsAndSuch(netTextResult(gGetTimeCallID))
end if
end if
The gTimeServerURL , whehn visited, returns one line of text--the date
formatted string that you see above. In my case, it's a ColdFusion server, but
you can do this with any CGI script.
Slava
At 09:38 AM 10/26/05 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi list...
>
>I need to make a projector non-functional after a certain date, and I'm
>hoping to get a good strategy on how best to accomplish this. I'm
>assuming I don't have access to the user's registry. I was thinking of
>writing a small text file to the appData folder, but I figured that
>might be too easy to alter if they change their clock. I was also
>pondering having the disc check online on startMovie for a script on a
>server that will return true/false, but that still might not cover
>altering the date.
>
>Has anyone done something like this before?
>
>Thanks,
>- Mike
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