Check the serial once a day?

[Steve Mohican]

Is it possible to check the serial number only once a day?

[LeeC]

@Steve-Mohican should be possible.
What serial method are you using at the moment?
Post a quick snippet and we can add in the check

[Steve Mohican]

@LeeC Actually I am using Simple Copy Protection tutorial system of Hise. My checkOnLoad() function is below.

namespace Authorisation
{
 
inline function checkOnLoad()
  {
        SerialInput.set("text", "");
        
   // Load the serial from the stored files
        local pData_SingleProduct = Engine.loadFromJSON("../../ProductLicense.js");
        
        Console.print("Checking serial");
    

// Single product serials      
 if(pData_SingleProduct)    
     {
           local v = pData_SingleProduct.Serial;
           Console.print("Restored serial: " + v);
        
            
           if(SingleProductSerials.Data.contains(v))
            {
                setValidLicense(true);
                return;
            }      
     }

      setValidLicense(false);

  }    
    
// Call this on startup
    checkOnLoad();

}

[Steve Mohican]

Guys any help will be appreciated....

[Lindon]

@Steve-Mohican I know @ustk was working on some sort of time/date function perhaps if you search for that it might help?

[LeeC]

@Steve-Mohican Sorry only just seen this...

/// Dates

const var datetime = Engine.getSystemTime(false);
const var today = Math.round(datetime.substring(0, 8));  /// Truncates and converts to integer
Console.print(today);

Essentially you'll need to write today to the ProductLicense.js file as the datelastchecked, then check it before checking the serial.

[Steve Mohican]

@LeeC Thank you so much, I'll check it out!

[LeeC]

@Steve-Mohican No problemo! Let me know if you hit any road blocks and I'll look at it a bit closer.
Had my head in the sand over the last couple of days

[Christoph Hart]

So you basically want to store a flag that controls whether to check the credential as clear text into a JSON object? This simplifies the hacking procedure to open up a text file and change true to false and in that case you can save yourself the trouble with bothering about serials at all

[Steve Mohican]

@Christoph-Hart You are right. I never thought like that before

[LeeC]

@Steve-Mohican you'll probably have to obscure the date information that you are writing to the JSON file somehow... Encrypt/Decrypt etc