[delphizip] Re: more on passwords...
- From: "R.Peters" <russellpeters@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 08:19:10 +1100
You can supply the password via the OnPasswordError event without user
intervention.
If you set unattended those dialogs should stop - you then 'filter' the
messages from OnZipMessage to display anything the user needs to know (most
cases not much).
You can also intercept the Dialogs via the OnZipDialog event to use your own
dialogs where you think they are needed, ignoring or supplying set answers
for the rest.
Thousands of years ago I started out as on assembly moved to Forth
programmer, then moved to C/C++ and now Delphi but ZipMaster was not created
by me - I only try to maintain and update it.
- Russell Peters
-----Original Message-----
From: delphizip-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:delphizip-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Randall Sell
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:09 PM
To: delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [delphizip] Re: more on passwords...
Importance: High
OnPasswordError does give me some level of control - but if you do the
pwsAbort - it will be followed by a string of error dialogs. "User cancelled
operation" etc. Even if you raise sysutils.abort, you surface that in a
dialog. That is just not right. You use abort to "silently" stop things. Not
so silent with ZipMaster.
What has me more worried is that I have Verbose set to false. Lord knows
what it would have to say if I set Verbose to true :)
But I don't actually want to prompt the user at all for a PW. The software
knows the PW. What I'd like it to do is simply show a message like "Software
does not pair with file, please update your software". and that's it - no
more error messages. That is not so easy. try it.
I get the feeling that at the heart of ZipMaster - there is a C programmer,
not a Delphi programmer.
cheers
-randall
"R.Peters" <russellpeters@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I am not sure what your
problem is with the OnPasswordError event because, in theory, it gives you
the opportunity to supply a password, skip extraction of the file or abort
the process without the 'user' needing to know anything.
I do see part of your problem - cannot do unattended encrypt without
password - I now allow that if OnPasswordError event is used.
Unfortunately testing revealed a slight dll problem - trace reveals the used
password so I must make a few more changes.
It is now about 01:00 GMT and the updates should be available in a few hours
(anyone's time).
- Russell Peters
-----Original Message-----
From: delphizip-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:delphizip-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Randall Sell
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:44 PM
To: delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [delphizip] more on passwords...
Importance: High
Well, there must be an easier way...
Now that I have encrypted zips, it is easy to apply them via the password
property. My problem is the lack of control when the password is not
correct. I can obviously write code in the OnPasswordError and show my
message, but I get all sorts of cascading messages for ZipMaster. I don't
really want the user to know (or do they care) that it is password
protected.
The only way I can sort out is to set Unattended to true. But obviously if
real things go wrong then, I wouldn't know so that's no good.
Seems to me there should be an OnError event. I know I can use OnMessage -
but that is triggered for more then just errors. Even so, I can't seem to
trap an error specifically for the password. It gives GE_Unknown. If I set
Unattended to true, it will give PW_UnatExtPWMiss - but my solution is
starting to look like a hack.
Surely there must be an eloquent solution?
cheers
-randall
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