Re: [flexcoders] Expiration date

2009-04-22 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009, Steve Mathews wrote: > Once time runs out just tell the user and exit. Of course the user could > uninstall/reinstall to get around this, so it isn't a fool-proof solution. Uninstalling an AIR application doesn't clear files it has installed, like SQLLite databases. --

RE: [flexcoders] Expiration date

2009-04-22 Thread Kenneth Sutherland
Depending on what your app does, restricting its use, for example disable saving/loading/copying of text and similar are quite common features to make users upgrade. Or what you could do is put in some code on startup that sent a request to your server to accept a response. Only if the respons

Re: [flexcoders] Expiration date

2009-04-21 Thread Steve Mathews
A very quick and dirty way would be to just save the first date it is launched (to a text file or better yet to a db) then check it on startup. Once time runs out just tell the user and exit. Of course the user could uninstall/reinstall to get around this, so it isn't a fool-proof solution. Steve