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How doI Password Protect Event Code?

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    #1

    How doI Password Protect Event Code?

    I tried putting in:

    'PASSWORD mickeymouse

    in the first lines of all my Initialize, AfterValidate and Activate events, on my Web dialogs, but it doesn't make any difference, even if I close Alpha5 and reopen it. It still doesn't ask me for my pasword.

    I don't want my client to mess with my code. I worked too hard to get it right.

    What am I doing wrong?
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    Re: How doI Password Protect Event Code?

    You cannot password protect event code. The best you can do is look at "compiling your code to AEX files". Look that up in the Help. Your clients are only going to see the code IF they have a copy of Alpha Five. Or rather, be able to mess with it. You can always see the code by looking at the file source.
    Steve Wood
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      #3
      Re: How doI Password Protect Event Code?

      That's too bad. MS Access has a way of delivering a compiled module that can't be looked at or modified by the user.

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        #4
        Re: How doI Password Protect Event Code?

        I have no database, just a bunch of Web dialogs.

        Is it possible for me to create User Defined Functions, for each event in each Web dialog, compile them into a library, load the library with the application and then just call the functions in the event script?

        Where would I find info on how to do that?

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          Re: How doI Password Protect Event Code?

          Originally posted by Easy Rider View Post
          I have no database, just a bunch of Web dialogs.

          Is it possible for me to create User Defined Functions, for each event in each Web dialog, compile them into a library, load the library with the application and then just call the functions in the event script?

          Where would I find info on how to do that?
          search the online help for a5w library
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            #6
            Re: How doI Password Protect Event Code?

            Originally posted by Easy Rider View Post
            That's too bad. MS Access has a way of delivering a compiled module that can't be looked at or modified by the user.
            That's the same as the AEX mentioned above for Alpha Five
            Regards,

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              #7
              Re: How do I Protect Event Code?

              All my important code is in AfterValidate events attached to my Web Dialogs.

              I don't understand, after reading various Help screens, how to convert the AfterValidate events on my Web dialogs to .AEX files, and then how to include them with my application, when I publish it. There is no database, no .adb file, behind my Web application, only a bunch of Dialogs.

              I'm trying to prevent users from seeing my code.

              Can somebody give me a procedure to follow?

              Thanx

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                Re: How do I Protect Event Code?

                Originally posted by Easy Rider View Post
                All my important code is in AfterValidate events attached to my Web Dialogs.

                I don't understand, after reading various Help screens, how to convert the AfterValidate events on my Web dialogs to .AEX files, and then how to include them with my application, when I publish it.
                I haven't done this w. the WAS, but...
                • Convert your existing code into functions - using the code editor.
                • Compile into an AEX.
                • Publish & load the aex file(s) [see below]
                • Put the corresponding function in each AfterValidate event.

                From the CHM:
                Code:
                If you have compiled the functions in your database into an .aex file 
then you can publish your .AEX file along with the other files in your application, 
and in the .A5W page that displays your component, you can include this code:

<%A5
a5w_load_aex("myComponentFile.aex")
%>
 
Where myComponentFile.aex is the name of the .AEX file that you created.

The A5W_LOAD_AEX() function can take a CR-LF delimited list of .AEX files,
allowing you to load multiple .AEX libraries.
                Peter
                AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

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