dongle protection

Aha, I got the developer kit already, and experimented a
bit, but I can only
get the envelop option to work (this is where teh compelte
e.e file is
protected, but you can't issu calls from teh director app
to the dongle to
e.g. have certain .exe features enabled or disabled.

I spoke to the tech guy from aladding and they said that
Lingo is not really
supported as such as the calls to the Dongle have not been
ported to Lingo
and it would depend on developers / clietns interest to get
it done
(otherwise they'd charge about £20000 plus to do it for a
individual
project).

As they are making their money on teh dongles they sell, it
may well be
worth pushing this a bit and offer it to clietns, as tey
probably only need
3 or 4 clients buying about 100 dongles each to make it
worth their while
...

we'll see ...

Have you experimented with other dongle companies?

thx,

Nik


On 2/27/06, James Newton <james.newtonopenspark.com> wrote:
>
> On 24/2/06 5:27 pm, "nik crosina"
<ncrosinagmail.com> wrote:
> > A client of mine wishes top protect their project
with a dongle, has
> anyone
> > any exeperience with that? E.g. HASP from Alladin?
>
> Hi Nik,
>
> After trying a couple of solutions, we chose:
>
> <http://www
.aladdin.com/HASP/HaspHL.asp>
>
> Use the latest driver for it to work properly as
Director needs overlay
> support checkbox ticked (set during creation of the new
exe).
>
> The product is easy to use, well-documented and comes
with a demo
> kit.  (This needs the latest driver to be installed on
top).
>
> Have fun,
>
> James
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nik crosina wrote:
> Aha, I got the developer kit already, and experimented
a bit, but I can only
> get the envelop option to work (this is where teh
compelte e.e file is
> protected, but you can't issu calls from teh director
app to the dongle to
> e.g. have certain .exe features enabled or disabled.
>
> I spoke to the tech guy from aladding and they said
that Lingo is not really
> supported as such as the calls to the Dongle have not
been ported to Lingo
> and it would depend on developers / clietns interest to
get it done
> (otherwise they'd charge about £20000 plus to do it
for a individual
> project).

I would be very, very surprised if these API calls aren't
doable inside 
a scripting xtra with very minimal effort.

Shouldn't cost you all that much to get someone to make
one.

Bye, Lucas
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Hi Lucas,

I thought about that as well and there is the VB scriopting
Xtra by eugene,
which is very good at scripting 'VB' scriptable apps. One
concern from the
tech guy at Aladdin was that these calls need to be
concealed and the DLLs
they call must be concealed in some way. I am not sure at
this stage whether
he means thy just are to be invisible, or hidden in some
other way.

Nik C


On 2/27/06, Lucas Meijer <lucasmach8.nl> wrote:
>
> nik crosina wrote:
> > Aha, I got the developer kit already, and
experimented a bit, but I can
> only
> > get the envelop option to work (this is where teh
compelte e.e file is
> > protected, but you can't issu calls from teh
director app to the dongle
> to
> > e.g. have certain .exe features enabled or
disabled.
> >
> > I spoke to the tech guy from aladding and they
said that Lingo is not
> really
> > supported as such as the calls to the Dongle have
not been ported to
> Lingo
> > and it would depend on developers / clietns
interest to get it done
> > (otherwise they'd charge about £20000 plus to do
it for a individual
> > project).
>
> I would be very, very surprised if these API calls
aren't doable inside
> a scripting xtra with very minimal effort.
>
> Shouldn't cost you all that much to get someone to
make one.
>
> Bye, Lucas
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