 | | |
© 2008 Mosquito SW — All Rights Reserved | ||
| | |
"The GuancheMOS plugin definitely achieves its goal of being 'the easy way serial number machine' and is therefore highly recommended for any REALbasic developer looking to add serial number functionality to their deployed applications."
Scott Griebel
What is GuancheMOS?
GuancheMOS is an engine that allows you to generate and verify serial numbers.
This can be done using four different algorithms for serial number generation (modes, from 1 to 4).
This engine is provided in the form of a REALbasic plug-in that you have to drag inside the “plug-ins” folder that you can find inside the REALbasic Application folder in your computer.
What are you buying?
When you buy GuancheMOS you are buying the plug-in. That is, our main purpose isn’t to sell the Test.rb application provided with the plug-in itself.
That application is only an example that shows how you can use the plug-in inside a RB application.
What does this mean?
This mean that we are not selling an application for automatizing the serial number generation process and sending such number to the end user “on the fly”. Obviously, that is possible if you want to develop that kind of application with REALbasic and the GuancheMOS plug-in.
How GuancheMOS works?
Here are two parts: the serial number generation for your users, and the serial number verification *inside* your deployed application.
Part 1. You can use our Test application or develop your own application for serial number generation.
In order to work, you have to register our plug-in (for example in the Open event of App) with the registration data that we have sent to you.
This is a standard procedure with any commercial plug-in for REALbasic that you can buy. Nothing special here.
Part 2. In order an user can be able to register *your* deployed application using the serial number generated with GuancheMOS.
— You have to register the GuancheMOS plug-in with the data we have sent to you (this operation *register* the commercial use of the plug-in). For example, you can register the plug-in in the Open event of App class.
This is a standard procedure with any commercial plug-in for REALbasic that you can buy. Nothing special here.
— You have to provide some kind of mechanism for the user, so he can introduce the registration information provided by you.
If you have generated the serial number with GuancheMOS using the name, e-mail address or any other data from the user, then provide two fields: one for the input of the name, e-mail address or any other data used during the serial number generation, and a second text field to introduce the serial itself.
— With these two pieces of data, use the “verify” function of GuancheMOS in order to test that the serial number is a valid serial or not.
— If the <data/serial> pair is true, GuancheMOS will return “true”; if not, it will return “false”.
— If GuancheMOS returns “true” from the Verify process, then you can write your own RB method in order to write a “registration file” in disk, so you can check that file the next time the user runs your application. If GuancheMOS returns “false”, then the user as tried to register the application using wrong data... so you can’t write any file to disk to disable the “demo” mode of your application. (You can opt also for use other mechanism, as writing the code necessary for connecting to a remote Data Base in order to deactivate the Demo mode of the application after a valid <data/serial number> validation.)
** NOTE: Make sure to use the same Mode number during the generation and validation process for the serial numbers used for a given application.
GuancheNEWS
