Because the "trial" status depends on the Crossfire Client (runtime or
however one might want to call it). Any AF created app registers itself
with the CF client (this is the stuff that they got patented) and when
this occurs, the CF client will probably check if it's
registered/activated or not.
Since quite some developers are currently looking for a "cracked"
version of the CF client, but are unable to find one, I assume that
"cracking" (i.e. removing the registration check) is not as trivial as
it might look. Just a guess, because I (resp. my customers) never had a
problem with the licenses they had to buy and therefore I never needed
to look for a "workaround". Currently the situation is different and
even though current AF developers are looking for alternatives, there
are actual needs for keeping existing customers happy and rewriting a
complex app (esp. if you DO need cross-platform apps) isn't a task done
in a few hours.
Dmitry Grinberg wrote:
why not patch the appforge-created app instead? should be trivial to
replace the right 4E 4F A1 94 with 4E 71 4E 71 or 60 02 00 00
On 5/3/07, Ingbert Grimpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
as some might know, AppForge has gone out of business and the new owner
of the IP (Oracle) is not interested in supporting the existing
developer community.
Keeping the IDE running is a solvable problem, but the second problem
are the clients.
There are ways to keep the client in "trial" mode (because this is
stored in saved preferences), but the user still get's the "this is a
trial version" nag screen.
One developer managed to write an app for PPC that runs in the
background and simply clicks the nag screen if it occurs.
As PalmOS is not a multitasking OS, this approach will not work here.
My idea:
"hacking" the trap table and pointing to a custom function that passes
FrmAlert and/or FrmCustomAlert calls to the orignal API functions only,
if it's NOT the AF nag screen.
I'm not unfamiliar with CW, but never did write any "hack" (instead
"wasted" my time to create custom modules for the AF client ...), so can
somebody point to a nice and simple ;) tutorial for writing "hacks"?
Using stuff like HackMaster et al is not necessary/usefull bc most of
the apps are used on dedicated devices which are meant solely for
running a defined group of applications.
regards,
Ingbert
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