Mike, One of my applications always gets the date and time from my Internet server. If your users will always have an Internet connection, you could use this:
--somewhere in the initialization routine: global gTimeServerURL ,gTimeOnServer, gGetTimeCallID if gTimeServerURL <> empty then --get server time off the net gTimeOnServer = empty --this will be set to the string returned by gTimeServerURL, e.g. "2004-12-31 00:00:00" gGetTimeCallID = getNetText(gTimeServerURL) --exitFrame will watch this and when getNetText is done, will set gTimeOnServer to the string returned by the server end if --in exitFrame: if (gTimeOnServer = empty) and (gTimeServerURL <> empty) then --it hasn't been set yet since the last time user clicked Submit global gGetTimeCallID --this was set when getNetText(gTimeServerURL) was called if netDone(gGetTimeCallID) then gTimeOnServer = TrimTabsAndSuch(netTextResult(gGetTimeCallID)) end if end if The gTimeServerURL , whehn visited, returns one line of text--the date formatted string that you see above. In my case, it's a ColdFusion server, but you can do this with any CGI script. Slava At 09:38 AM 10/26/05 -0400, you wrote: >Hi list... > >I need to make a projector non-functional after a certain date, and I'm >hoping to get a good strategy on how best to accomplish this. I'm >assuming I don't have access to the user's registry. I was thinking of >writing a small text file to the appData folder, but I figured that >might be too easy to alter if they change their clock. I was also >pondering having the disc check online on startMovie for a script on a >server that will return true/false, but that still might not cover >altering the date. > >Has anyone done something like this before? > >Thanks, >- Mike [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email lingo-l@penworks.com (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]