At 2:06 PM -0800 11/16/2001, Mark MacKenzie (Shaw) wrote:
>Question:
>1.  What system information can Revolution obtain?
>2.  I think what I want might be a hard drive device descriptive number.  I
>want this to function something like Adobe's electronic book registration.

Revolution will return system version information (systemVersion,
QTVersion), information about its own version (buildNumber, revAppVersion,
version), and information about the platform (platform, environment,
machine, processor).

But there's nothing I can think of that will return a unique value on each
machine. One possibility would be to write an external to return the MAC
address or something similar (bearing in mind that there are failure modes
for this kind of hardware checking, and you may end up annoying legitimate
users).

Another possibility is to write a preferences file with encrypted
information concerning the machine type and current registered user. (This
one is not as foolproof but will foil casual users.)

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