Hello

I have seen the MDE code protector in everything access.
If you use this is there a way to add in copyright information?

I know all of the commented lines are taken out so how is it normally done?

David

David <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I know all of the commented lines are taken out so how is it normally done?

Many years ago, 27 or 28 or so to be more precise, IBM had a constant
defined at the very beginning of each program. It states something
like "Copyright 1983 IBM".

Now someone could conceivably overwrite that with a hex editor.

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I've used the constant. Plus I put in a "watermark": It is a constant with
text that I manually encrypted. A plagerizer would probably overlook the
watermark. Also I place a copyright statement at the bottom of each form
which is filled in each time the form is open by a special procedure that
decodes another constant and inserts it into the copyright text box control.
Generally I make it difficult for the plagerizer to change the copyright.

"Tony Toews [MVP]" wrote:

> David <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >I know all of the commented lines are taken out so how is it normally done?
>
> Many years ago, 27 or 28 or so to be more precise, IBM had a constant
> defined at the very beginning of each program. It states something
> like "Copyright 1983 IBM".
>
> Now someone could conceivably overwrite that with a hex editor.
>
> Tony
> --
> Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
> Please respond only in the newsgroups so that others can
> read the entire thread of messages.
> Microsoft Access Links, Hints, Tips & Accounting Systems at
> http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
> Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/
>