On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Dominique Busso wrote:
>>Can you elaborate on what you are trying to do here?
>
> We have a customer who would like us to copy-protect his MC application
> using a "physical key" (like the Rainbow sentinel), that you plug on the
> seria port. We used the Sentinel key on a mac wihtin SuperCard (there is
> an xcmd). My question is, because this is Metacard and we are
> cross-plateform (even Unix would be good), what would be a good choice in
> terms of external key to use within Mecacard on Mac, Windows, and Unix?
> (even is the physical keys are different).
First up, check if the XCMD works with MetaCard on the Mac. Some SuperCard
XCMD's do. Use the copyResource XCMD in Xtend to copy the data fork based
XCMD in your project to the resource fork of your SC project. Then the XCMD
resource may be transferred to your MC stack in the normal way using a
resource editor. Don't forget to specify the name of the XCMD afterwards in
the externals tab in the stack components palette in the stack properties
palette.
If the SC XCMD does work with MC on the Mac, then it will have to be ported
to any other platforms on which you want it to work. If the SuperCard XCMD
does not work then you may have to consider having it adapted for MetaCard
on the Mac and then, of course, ported to the required platforms.
Cheers,
Alan
> Dominique BUSSO
>
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