> That's a great job !
> Until now, the "computer based training" solutions where based on java (cf
> toolbook) or shockwave or flash. It was difficult to program and/or heavy to
> download. Sivakatirswami's solution is light, powerful and elegant.
Unwarranted praise. . .It's Scott solution already built under the menu of
MC "tools.metacard.com" which then downloads a stack with buttons for 7
other stacks. I just put our "Academy Label" on that whole structure and
tweaked the scripts a little bit. It seemed such an obvious thing to do. . .
As for the security thing, throughout the internet the option to download
"something malicious that could ruin your computer." is omnipresent, from a
simple email to "try our new product." Andu's point: "as for the other end
you better trust the developer for not making you download malicious stacks
or don't do it at all." applies to ALL software, trial versions, demo
versions from all vendors of software. . .we trust the upgrade to Adobe
Illustrator 9.0 will not erase our hard drives, but it could if it wanted
to.
As for:
>Would it be possible to have in metatalk some internal flag forbiding a
>runtime to write on the user's disk but in the folder where the runtime is ?
"Runtime" means "Standalone" Right?
Set to true SecureMode breaks this handler
on mouseUp
ask File "Choose a folder to save this stack in." \
with "thisGreatStack.mc" with filter ".mc"
save this stack as it
end mouseUp
and defeats the whole value in being able to use MC pass to the students, or
parents for their children at home, studies which they can then save and let
their children use without logging on to the internet.
But if you didn't offer a dialogue box and left secureMode false and simply
did this
on mouseUp
create directory "stackOnDisk"
save this stack as ("file:stackOnDisk/thisGreatStack.mc")
Answer "Saved to your C Drive. You can now open this stack offline." with
"OK"
end mouseUp
does that not in effect restrict a file write to the current directory only?
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