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
Thanks everyone for the responses, I appreciate them.
I think with the circumstances I have to work with, Tim's response is
most suitable. I'm not sure I can rely on the users having internet
access with Slava's or Ben's ideas, and I've been using buddyAPI all
throughout the project anyway.
You could also throw one more curveball. Create a app.pref file in an
obvious place, and drop the creation date in there. If the real ini
is present, and the dummy file is not, throw an alert along the lines
of: Internal error - please contact the author with code 0604. If the
date in the
Slick idea Kurt. That is indeed an extra curve ball I just might
implement.
- MM
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