HOWTO: Add Password Protection to Your Application [Archive]

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10-03-2002, 03:39 PM

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>HOWTO: Add password protection to your application</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><h3>HOWTO: Add Password Protection to Your Application</h3>Document ID: IR04016<hr>The information in this article applies to:<ul><li>AutoPlay Media Studio 4.0</li></ul><hr><h3>SUMMARY</h3>This article will describe how to add password protection to your Auto Play Media Studio 4.0 application.<h3>DISCUSSION</h3>Password protection can be accomplished in AutoPlay Media Studio 4.0 by following the these steps:<ul><li>Create a new Global List to hold your valid passwords.</li><li>Populate this newly created Global List with valid passwords.</li><li>Choose when you would like to ask the user for their password. If you want the user to enter a password in order to open your application then you will need to work in the Projects "On Initialize" event. If you only wish to have password protection on a single page then you will need to work in the pages "On Initialize" event.</li><li>Use a Dialog.GetInformation action in order to ask the user for their password. You can customize this dialog in order to make it look the way that you like.</li><li>Use a GlobalList.Find action to check and see if the password entered by the user matches one that exists in your Global List.</li><li>Use an IF statement in order to check and see if the GlobalList.Find action found the password that the user entered.</li><li>If the password was not found in the Global List then you will need to either show an appropriate message (using a Dialog.ShowMessageBox action), ask the user again (using a Control Structure.While action) or exit the application (using an Application.Exit action).</li><li>If the password was found in the Global List then you know that they entered a valid password and you can simply carry on with your menu.</li></ul>There is a detailed example of this action script in the help file under Command Reference | Actions | Examples | Advanced | Verifying a Password<h3>MORE INFORMATION</h3><ul><li>Command Reference | Actions | Examples |Advanced |Verifying a Password</li><li>Command Reference | Global Lists | Global Lists Dialog</li><li>Command Reference | Actions | Application | Exit</li><li>Command Reference | Actions | Dialog | Get Information</li><li>Command Reference | Actions | Dialog | Show Message Box</li><li>Command Reference | Actions | C/ntrol Structures | IF</li><li>Command Reference | Actions | Global List | Find</li></ul>KEYWORDS: Global List, Password protect<hr>Last reviewed: October 03, 2002 Copyright © 2002 <A HREF="http://www.indigorose.com" target="blank">Indigo Rose Corporation</a>. All rights reserved. </BODY></HTML>