Re: licence key validation method

2015-01-12 Thread Gleb Dolgich
This is a fight you cannot win, so don't waste your time. A dedicated cracker will bypass any protection. I use minimal obfuscation and asymmetric key generation, and that's it. Gleb On 13 January 2015 at 02:32, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: On 13 Jan 2015, at 1:18 pm, Charles

Re: licence key validation method

2015-01-12 Thread Gleb Dolgich
You don't need cocoafob.m as it's test code. CFobLicVerifier.{h|m} and CFobError.{h|m} should be it as all the necessary decoding in the no_openssl branch is handled using SecurityFramework. The function codecheck() in cocoafob.m just shows you how to verify a licence. Regards, Gleb On 13

Re: licence key validation method

2015-01-12 Thread Gleb Dolgich
Or you go find documentation on CocoaFob’s file format, Tried that… There is no file involved, it’s just a string containing user name and whatever else you need to verify the license. It is described in CocoaFob README and there is a small sample available as well. which I’m sure is

Re: Image Sizing

2015-01-01 Thread Gleb Dolgich
Duet adds a connected iPad as a second display which you can set to use Retina resolution. I just tried it and it seems to work pretty well with only a slight lag. I bought Duet with the main purpose of testing my apps at the Retina resolution without having to switch the main display to one.

Re: iOS database within sandbox

2014-08-23 Thread Gleb Dolgich
There is also YapDatabase https://github.com/yaptv/YapDatabase -- a KV-store built atop SQLite. On 23 Aug 2014, at 16:17, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Wow, I didn’t realize there were so many options. I’ll be looking into all of these (SQLite, CoreData, FMDB, Realm) to

Re: iOS database within sandbox

2014-08-23 Thread Gleb Dolgich
From Realm home page: Realm is not built on SQLite. On 23 Aug 2014, at 17:57, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: On Aug 23, 2014, at 9:23 AM, Glenn L. Austin gl...@austinsoft.com wrote: CoreData is not a database (according to Marcus Zarra -- and he should know). Even

Re: split views, best practices for 10.8?

2012-11-27 Thread Gleb Dolgich
On 27 Nov 2012, at 22:11, Peter Ammon pam...@apple.com wrote: Are you sure you need a nested split view at all? A single split view can have multiple panes. Wow, I must have missed that. I'm in exactly the same situation as the OP. After reading this I tried dragging a custom view and

Re: Tool for creating application icon

2012-06-07 Thread Gleb Dolgich
on one of them, I thought I'd ask here for opinions. The idea is to create a 512x512 pixel icns icon for my app to use if I ever succeed of getting it on the App Store. Sketch 2 is quite good: http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/ Opacity is very capable too: http://likethought.com/opacity/ -- Gleb

Re: Updating an app's help

2011-12-13 Thread Gleb Dolgich
This works for me: killall helpd rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.help* -- Gleb Dolgich PixelEspresso http://www.pixelespressoapps.com On 13 Dec 2011, at 22:17, Graham Cox wrote: With each update of our app, we typically change the help book. We're finding that the system is very poor

Re: Updating an app's help

2011-12-13 Thread Gleb Dolgich
of the problem. --Graham On 14/12/2011, at 1:44 PM, Gleb Dolgich wrote: This works for me: killall helpd rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.help* -- Gleb Dolgich PixelEspresso http://www.pixelespressoapps.com On 13 Dec 2011, at 22:17, Graham Cox wrote: With each update of our

Re: Cocoa-preferred licensing key style?

2011-05-29 Thread Gleb Dolgich
Have a look at my CocoaFob at https://github.com/glebd/cocoafob/ Regards, -- Gleb Dolgich PixelEspresso http://www.pixelespressoapps.com On 30 May 2011, at 00:58, Todd Heberlein wrote: For Cocoa apps not distributed through the Mac App Store, is there a common/recommended design pattern

Re: UI Design on iPad

2011-04-21 Thread Gleb Dolgich
and feel of UIKit controls is there for a reason, don't throw that away. -- Gleb Dolgich PixelEspresso http://www.pixelespressoapps.com On 21 Apr 2011, at 17:18, Scott Andrew wrote: Don't give up on UIKit. You will find you can do alot with UIKit. I have used UIKit extensively for several large

Re: iPad widget question

2011-02-26 Thread Gleb Dolgich
Have a look at AQGridView: https://github.com/AlanQuatermain/AQGridView -- Gleb Dolgich PixelEspresso http://www.pixelespressoapps.com On 27 Feb 2011, at 03:10, Lightning Duck wrote: I need to make something like a 2D grid of icons where each icon is tappable. This seems like fairly

Re: How can I make a window just like the Anxiety App?

2011-02-21 Thread Gleb Dolgich
I created a fork of BWToolkit with an added target for Mac App Store which has private APIs conditionally removed; our app Decloner that uses it is in the App Store. https://github.com/glebd/bwtoolkit -- Gleb Dolgich PixelEspresso http://www.pixelespressoapps.com On 21 Feb 2011, at 05:53

Re: Wondering about that iPad page curling

2010-04-06 Thread Gleb Dolgich
http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/2010/02/apples-ibooks-dynamic-page-curl.html -- Gleb Dolgich http://pixelespressoapps.com On 6 Apr 2010, at 16:56, Laurent Daudelin wrote: So, no other response from the regular crowd of resident experts on how Apple engineers did this? -Laurent

Re: Wondering about that iPad page curling

2010-04-05 Thread Gleb Dolgich
be able to achieve such effect? http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/2010/02/apples-ibooks-dynamic-page-curl.html -- Gleb Dolgich http://pixelespressoapps.com/decloner Decloner -- find and remove duplicate files on your Mac___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: Looking for info on anti-piracy and trial-mode techniques for my app . . .

2010-02-24 Thread Gleb Dolgich
to implement limitation of functionality yourself though. -- Gleb Dolgich PixelEspresso http://pixelespressoapps.com___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact

Re: Encrypting Binary Strings

2009-12-30 Thread Gleb Dolgich
sure it is possible to obfuscate the strings, but security by obscurity never works, and if you are distributing a private key inside your app for encryption, you are doing it wrong IMHO. -- Gleb Dolgich http://pixelespressoapps.com ___ Cocoa-dev

Re: Encrypting Binary Strings

2009-12-30 Thread Gleb Dolgich
, if anyone breaks your 'common' key, everyone will be able to circumvent your parental protection. -- Gleb Dolgich http://pixelespressoapps.com___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator

Re: Encrypting Binary Strings

2009-12-30 Thread Gleb Dolgich
You could store the generated key in a keychain. This way you wouldn't have to ask for the password to access the encryption key. -- Gleb Dolgich http://pixelespressoapps.com On 30 Dec 2009, at 18:58, Mr. Gecko wrote: But then how would I get the data? If the key has to do with the password

Re: Encrypting Binary Strings

2009-12-30 Thread Gleb Dolgich
if at all possible. I'm not an expert on Keychain, so I can't point you to the right API calls, sorry. -- Gleb Dolgich http://pixelespressoapps.com On 30 Dec 2009, at 19:23, Mr. Gecko wrote: But then the child/teenager, if they know about keychain they could check it and find the key

Re: base32

2009-09-23 Thread Gleb Dolgich
://www.crockford.com/wrmg/base32.html, implemented in Ruby here: http://github.com/levinalex/base32, but it doesn't look like it is compatible with your version of base32. Another slightly different version in C is z-base-32: http://zooko.com/repos/z-base-32/base32/ Hope this helps. -- Gleb Dolgich

Re: TabBarController + NavigationController Integration Problem in IB

2008-05-27 Thread Gleb Dolgich
On 27 May 2008, at 09:21, Scott Anguish wrote: On May 27, 2008, at 4:02 AM, George Stuart wrote: WooHoo! My first post to cocoa-dev... and it's to ask -- is this appropriate for cocoa-dev? The iPhone SDK is under NDA and can not be discussed here. scott [moderator] At the moment