Help!
I' ve made an application that I want to distribute. How do I make a licens
key (with or without a trialperiod)???

Thanks for any inputs.

     One way of achieving this to create a license table with your license 
     agreement. at the load event of the startup from write code to refer 
     to this table for license agreement and date of expiry. To give you an 
     example. here is the structure for my license table.
     
     Fields
     
     creadate           date/time
     enddate            date/time
     
     here is the code on load event of startup form
     
     Set DB = CurrentDb
     Set RS = DB.OPENRECORDSET("SELECT * FROM license")
     If RS.RecordCount = 0 Then
       MsgBox ("Thank you for using this application. We have worked hard 
     to make this application as simple as Possible. This is a Trial 
     Version which will expires on " & Format(Date + 30, "dd/mmm/yyyy") & 
     ". We will provide you full version of this application very soon")
       RS.AddNew
         RS!createdate = Date
         RS!enddate = Date + 30
       RS.Update
     Else
       If RS!enddate < Date Then
         MsgBox ("Application License has expired! Please Contact your 
     vendor")
       Else
         If RS!createdate > Date Then
         MsgBox ("Application License has expired! Please Contact your 
     vendor")
         End If
       End If
     End If
     RS.Close
     DB.Close
     
     hope this give you an idea.
     
     rgds
     khyam
     
     
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     Subject: [access] Licens key in applications 
     Author:  Access <access@p...> at Internet-gateway
     Date:    8/30/2002 8:44 AM
     
     
     Help!
     I' ve made an application that I want to distribute. How do I make a 
     licens key (with or without a trialperiod)???
     
     Thanks for any inputs.