Hello All! I am very close to finishing my first Palm OS app and need to address copy protection issues. I have read Aaron Ardiri's paper which contains much useful information. I am also looking at Hexlet's fine PalmReg tool. I am trying to understand all the available options before I choose.
Code splitting would seem a natural technique for me to use, given my app's architecture. My app is built with the PRC-Tools. It is a multi-segment app. It's designed for musical applications, using a MIDI interface for bi-directional communications with some musical equipment. I want to split my MIDI comm functions into a loadable .pdb or .prc file, a la Aaron Ardiri's "Copy Protection" paper. Purchaser's of my app receive a file which enables actual communications functions. Otherwise, the app acts as a demo version by "pretending" to communicate so that potential customers can try it out. My MIDI comm functions are just basic serial port calls but use a few global variables. Obviously, I can eliminate the global variable references. I am quite unexperienced with Palm development and do not understand how to generate the loadable .pdb/.prc file. Can somebody give me more information on how to do this? Any help is much appreciated. Sincerely, Dennis Leas ------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
