Flash :: [CS3] Expiry Protection.

Expiry For Projector..?
Greetings,
need help again...
Was wonderin if i cud set an expiry date to a flash projector so that it stops to function after that date...or can i set user & password for a projector so that it ceases after a certain number of times the user has logged in...

like as its done with websites ...
//get cookies..
if visits = ..
so....
some stuff like that.....

thanks

Set Expiry On Shared Object
I'm using a shared object to make sure that an animation only plays once for each user using this code:

code:
// Retrieve cookies
function getCookies(){
so = SharedObject.getLocal("counter");
function setCookies(){
so.flush();
}

// Work out visits
getCookies();
so.data.visits++;
visits = so.data.visits;
setCookies();

if(so.data.visits == 1)
{
trace("if clause " + so.data.visits);
_root.gotoAndPlay("animation");
}
else
{
trace("else clause " + so.data.visits);
_root.gotoAndPlay("static");
}

I want to be able to adapt this so i can set this shared object to expire after an amount of time, or more preferably after that browser has been closed. Any ideas please?

(Flash MX)

Set Expiry On Shared Object
I'm using a shared object to make sure that an animation only plays once for each user using this code:

Code:
// Retrieve cookies
function getCookies(){
so = SharedObject.getLocal("counter");
function setCookies(){
so.flush();
}

// Work out visits
getCookies();
so.data.visits++;
visits = so.data.visits;
setCookies();

if(so.data.visits == 1)
{
trace("if clause " + so.data.visits);
_root.gotoAndPlay("animation");
}
else
{
trace("else clause " + so.data.visits);
_root.gotoAndPlay("static");
}
I want to be able to adapt this so i can set this shared object to expire after an amount of time, or more preferably after that browser has been closed. Any ideas please?

Shared Objects Expiry
Hey all, can anyone tell me if I can set a Shared Object to expire after a certain amount of time? Meaning, when a user selects an option it remembers it every time they come back but only for say, a week or month or whatever. If not, is it possible to get flash to cooperate with regular cookies instead of using Shared Objects?

Thanks!!

Expiry Functionality In Flash?
Hello,
I would like to find out whether there is a time-out or expiry functionality in Flash, a kind of counter that determines when the
Flash file (either .swf or .exe ) was first opened and then counts down a number of days, at the end of which the files are disabled?

It would be great is someone could point me in the right direction, thanks!
midi

Flash Movie Expiry
Hi everyone

I have recently downloaded Captivate an dplayed around with that. It is very good, and one thing I noticed was that you could set an expiry date for a movie (so if someone downloads it, they can not play it after a set date).

Can anyone confirm that you can also do this using Macromedia Flash MX? I guess it must be just a little bit of code in the swf file.

I hoep to develop some apps that can be downloaded.

Many thanks in advance.

Cheers

Del

Set Expiry Date On Cached Txt Files
Is there any way to set an expiry date for .txt files like cookies?

Ad An Expiry Date Into A Flash Movie
does anyone know how to code a movie so that it expires after a certain date.

Shared Object Expiry Date
can this be set?
thanks in advance.

Expiry Date On Flash Movie
Hi,

I'm producing e-learning objects in Flash and for licensing reasons I would like to define a date on which the movie expires.

Is this possible in Flash ?
Can anyboby explain how I do this ?

Please note, I am new to Flash and this forum, so please supply detailed instructions ;-)

PBI

Using An Expiry Date To Expire A Flash Movie
I am using this code to set up an expiry date on an swf I am building.

What I would like to accomplish is, if todays date is greater then the expiry date written into a text file, then the movie has expired, and it will gotoAndStop on a frame labelled expired. If it is less then todays date, it will play to frame 2 where the movie is.

The current code works if the expiry date is hardcoded into the action script.

Instead of hardcoding the date, how could I insert the expiry date from a text file containing variables.

The textfile is called "acme.txt" and the variable name looks like this below. The date will be formated this way: MMM DD, YYYY

Code:
&ExpiryDate=Feb 15, 2000

Here is the expiry date actionscript code:

Code:
[as:1:826b019f47]today_date = new Date();
date_str = ((today_date.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + today_date.getDate() + "/" + today_date.getFullYear());
trace(date_str);
//expires before moth 4 (april) day 15
if(today_date.getMonth()+1 > 4 && today_date.getDate() > 15)
{
_root. gotoAndStop("expired");
}[/as:1:826b019f47]

I'm not even sure if its possible. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Livi

Protection
Hello,

I am trying to use Flash to make a form that person enters a username and password and it sends the person to a predefined page. This is pretty simple. The thing is that it is not secure whatsoever. I know that you could password protect a flash movie, but one does not have to download the ".swf" file and import it to be able to break into the usernames and passwords. Also, I have seen sites that use everything from a ".txt" to a ".dat" to a ".js" file to hide and encode their usernames and passwords, but those do not work either. I have tried to name the variables for the "username" and "password" by names that are random so that no one would guess them, but people could still break into the list of usernames and passwords. I have had experience with people opening up the ".swf" file with a hex editor (I'm not going to go into how people break into a ".swf" since I do not want to instigate a rash of hacking) and just extracting the usernames and passwords. I am wondering if anyone has any secure method to keep my list of usernames and passwords hidden from everyone.

Thank you in advance for your help

CD Protection
Hello Guys!

I'm done with a small program in Flash and I wish to make a CD of it. Is there a way to protect the CD from duplication! I'm not sure if there is...But I'll surely appreciate help!

thanx

nixthinx

Is There ANY Protection ?
Hi all,

i came across a copy of the ******* decompiler for swfs and i have to say i'm shocked !

Isn't there any way to protect my work ?
I have no problem with exchanging my knowledge about flash for example on this board or if someone asks me about how i did something, but I'm pissed to see, that it is actually possible to rip the artwork that i did, or the sounds that i created.

Also sometimes I embed passwords for my clients into my swfs, when i want them to be able to change a text file for example, because i figured it would be fairly safe, but now i see it's not !

Maybe macromedia should be on the case for that...

I'm really annoyed !

Protection
How do flash designers prevent surfers from caching their .swf files in their Temporary Internet Folder? I know that www.orisinal.com does that. I couldn't save any of her games to my hard-drive!

Swf Protection
hi,
i have question, is it possible to protect swf file against password crackers as sothing decompiler etc?

Swf Protection
hello

i am portuguese and my english is not good ...sorry

i have a swf that stop in the frame 5 with the stop()..i want to protect the next frames...it is ok

But, when i click in the right botton of the mouse over the swf..i open the controler flash window(settings,forward,rewind, play..etc), i click the forward option and the swf goes to the frame 6,7,8...so i can not protect my swf!

1- how can i desactivate the controler flash window?
2 - is there another way to protect my swf?

thanks aquiles boiça

Protection
Hello,

I have made a formula in actionscript instead of javascript, so nobody can see the code. But,.... Is this truly so???

Is it realy impossible to view the actionscript code within a swf file?
Can nobody hack a swf file?

Please let me know if it is possible!

tnx,
Gerjan

Protection Help
im not sure if this question should go in this section or not but stay with me. is there any way possible to protect a flash game from players cheating by right clicking and going to forward. ive seen on some games it just has a thing that says about flash player 8 it doesnt allow you to go foward. how do u do this?

hope its not 2 confusing

Thanks

Sterockicy

Protection Help
is there a way to protect a flash game from being right clicked and bring up all those opions like foward and back. i have a game on flash 8 but it has some previous flash program features. i want to stop otheres from cheating on my game by clicking forward. is it possible to protect it from this?

thanks

Sterockicy

Protection
How do you keep people from caching a .swf into their temporary internet folder? Sites which do this, from the ones that I noticed, are www.2advanced.com and www.orisinal.com .

SWF Protection
Hello all i made a small script to protect my root dir

if (_level0._url.indexOf("http://www.WEBSITENAME.com/") == -1) {
gotoAndStop("error");
}
gotoAndStop("ok");
fscommand("quit");

and i added 2 frames one the "error" frame and the other "ok" frame
why i cannot let this script detect my webroot and is there any other solution for this

my script is to protect swf to be played offline

Thanks.

Swf Protection
This is a tough one :D (not for you pro's):

What can I do to protect my swf files from being decompiled by unathourised persons(fu**** up code thiefs). I heard that the .exe file can't be decompiled...(or at least that it is very difficult to decompile them), and I see that flash has a few protection option(the password), are those options gonna descourage a thief?
What advices can you give me and not only to me, because I think that we all are interested in how to protect our work.
Thnx.

Password Protection
Howdy,

I'm trying to make some low level password protection for a site and I mean "Low Level". What I would like to do is create an entry box that the visitor would enter a password into. When they click "ENTER" the script will check to see if the word they entered matches. If it does then the main index site page will open, replacing the current window.

I've been told that I could do this with HTML and a CGI but I don't have access to that. I figured Flash has the capability and then I don't have to worry about a CGI.

I know some basic action scripting but nothing to elaborate. Be gentle.

Password Protection
hello,
does anyone know how to make a password protected area on a site? what's to stop someone from just typing the URL and getting past the password page.?, i have a password page, it's 3 frames. frame one is prompting the user to enter the password. frame 3 is where he goes if he types in a wrong password. frame 2 is the page where s/he goes if they type in the right one. from there, they can click a button to get in. what's to stop the viewer from doing a "forward one step" (when you right click on a flash movie, this option is there). is there a way to make it totally secure?
thanks for the help...

Password Protection
Can anyone help me out with what I need to write so that I can POST the value of an input textbox on the server.

My input box is named variable "password".

I need to POST the parameter "pass" which should based on the variable "password" to a server . This is what I have written to the submit button:

on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") {
getURL ("?pass=eval (password)", "_self", "POST");
}

It returns this:

Query String [pass=String%20(%20password%20)]

Request Method [post]

please help me out.

rasheid

Password Protection
I want a part off my flashsite to be protected by a password and username. How can I do this the best. I have A idea but mayby you guys have a more efficient way!

thnx henke

Password Protection
Please will someone help me!!!! I downloaded a flash file that offers password protection. It has user name and password. It said I could create up to 10,000 users. I can't get in contact with the guy who created it and I am VERY new to Flash. How do I create the names and passwords. Also, it says it allows access to a .html file. How do I direct it to the file I want? Also, what prevents someone from just typing in the URL of the target site, and thus bypassing the password prompt? Sorry to lay a lot on ya'll but I am dying and I am on a deadline which was supposed to be today...

Password Protection
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How can i do it ?
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Password Protection
How secure is flash if you check off "protect from import" in Publish Settings? Aren't there programs that can still import your file?

Is there a better (more secure) way of doing password protection? For example say I had a page where a user could eneter a user name and password to get to a certain section of my site. What if I made the user name and password into variables and then passed them to an ASP page or something similar(I lack knowledge in this department) and then that page processed the username and password? Is it possible to pass variables out of a swf file?

Thanks for any help.

Print Protection
Hi,

Is it possible to protect a flashmovie from being printed from a browser.

Thanks!

Brainstorm Protection
I have always recieved great answers here, and I am thankful. I hope I am not straying too far off the subject on this one...
Well, On a site there will be a section in which a writing can be forwarded to your friend's email accounts if you like the writing. However, in the past, there have been problems with a few people taking the writings and putting their own names on them and selling them (yes, Im not kidding) even though they are copywrited. We want to prevent this. So I thought maybe an email with flash embeded in it would be forwarded, in which they have to accept the terms of not copying, before they can go to the next screen that the writing is on. There are a billion differnet ways to look at this situation, and I would really appreciate it if you could assist, and if you need help with anything in return let me know. (I thought about making a soundfile instead of a writing, but that couldnt be forwarded easily, and it can still be stolen.)
~Thanks you
Eric

Password Protection Help
hello... I was reading this tutorial.. yes... it's still late at night as it was from my previous post about target paths of my instances...
but here's another thing I'm wondering... I was reading this tutorial:
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ac...-645/index.php

and I looked at it... and I was wondering... is there any way to turn this into a type of thing where you input a password instead of generating one...
that way I can use it as a keygen and applie it to a CD-Protection passkey type interface I'm developing...
I'm not exactly good with strings in flash... I'm just... intermediate and kinda expert I guess...
I can exactly write hard and bare actionscript code from the top of my head though and make it do what I want it to do... like make a scrolling menu or something.... but that's besides the point...
any of you know how to convert this formula in this tutorial to a password input? so I can use it as a keygen for CD-Protection? (it wont be just the projector trust me... there'll be lots of protection around it)
thanks to whoever helps me =) I really appreciate it =)

Password Protection...
Hey, I was wondering if I wanted to password protect different parts of my movie, could I have a login screen that will first get the username and password entered then search a text file to see if the username and password match, and if they do give the user access but if they don't then deny access. I want to do this using a text field, so I was thinking a text file database but I am confused as to how to set that up in flash.

Thanks in advance.

Flash Protection
Can anyboy help....

I have look around and i cant seem to find any way of stopping flash rippers or decompilers from steeling my swf files

Please can you help me... Examples would be good as im a newbie to flash..

Regards

Protection From Swf Scanner
How can i protect my swf files from swf scanner?

Website Protection
How do you keep your Flash Website from being stolen off the net. It looks like Internet Explorer has made it harder for thieves but Netscape still leaves you wide open. I asked this question over a year ago and got a good answer from one of the osowise moderators but I rarely ever used it so it ended up gettin misplaced. I happen to need that info now, can anyone help?

Copyright Protection
Hy to all in there!

All I want to know is how can I protect my work from the .swf decompilers.Because that are the real threat , the tool that leechers use to capture and crack flash files.
If you know such a method I want to know...

Thanks in advance!Best regards!

CD Copy Protection
Hello.

I´m making a flash presentation cd and I would like to add some slight copy protection to the content - not anything hackerproof, but simple - if user copies cd content to harddisk then the presentation doesn´t work properly.

Is it possible somehow to do this?

Password Protection
Hi all,

I would like to implement password protection for my Flash site that I hope to start on soon. I have a book titled Developing Websites with Macromedia Flash MX by Rickard Muller and from what I can tell, it's going to be a helpful resource for me. On page 290 of the book, there's a code example for password protection which is shown below:

on (release) {
password = password.toLowerCase();
if (password == "flashmx") {
gotoAndPlay ("Scene 2", 1);
} else {
gotoAndPlay ("Scene 3", 1);
}
}

How can I modify this code so that the password is NOT automatically set to lowercase. More importantly, I would like 2 passwords to be used. How can I allow for this?

Password Protection
Hi all. So i have a username input box and password input box, and this is the script for my log in button:
================================================== ===
{ if (password=="tutorial" or password=="romania") {
mess="You forgot the username!";
}
if (username=="flashkit" & password=="tutorial" or username=="vlad" & password=="romania") {
mess="Welcome " + username;
}
}
================================================== ===

How do i tell the movie to go to say..frame 100?

Ive tried a goto and play, but that doesnt seem to do anything..no matter how many times i hit the login button. Any ideas ? :P

Password Protection
I've been working on a flash site for a while and it is almost done. What I'm left to do is add a password protected page which the members can access thru a log-in.

Is this reliable or is there a way the information can be cracked? More specifically, lets say I set a variable to be a password and use a conditional to check if the input equals the variable. Unless someone else has access to the .fla the password cannot be cracked right?

Cheers :>

ActionScript Protection (Not Whole SWF )
Hi,
months ago there was an online actionscript encryption application.
We were pasting the bytecodes of our actionscripts (functions, prototypes etc) getting form ASV and pasting them to the form on this site.
And site was returning encrypted bytecodes.
We can use these encrypted bytecodes in .fla files.
And everything was ok.
But this project is down
I've googled and couldn' find any soft doing these.
There are many SWF Encyption utilities but no actionscript encryption ones.
Still searching....

Password Protection
I am just getting into AS 2.0 cold. It is going OK so far... I am learning. Thinking aboout PW protection.

Can I create an entire system with a data base which creates user accounts with all the normal features -- log in, lost PW key words, etc....

Just wondering about that. I am thinking XML to hold the data.

I think the answer is yes already... Is difficult...?

I don't think there is any easy way to accomplish this...

ODC..