Question:
How do you protect an application with a password and store it in the application’s exe-file?
Answer:
You’d have to hard code the password in. Then in the FormCreate method of your main form, you’d do something like this:
procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);var pwrd : String; PassOK : Boolean;begin Counter := 1; PassOK := False; while (Counter < 4) do begin InputQuery('Type in a password', 'You have ' + IntToStr(4 - Counter) + ' tries left', pwrd); if (pwrd = 'MyPassword') then begin PassOK := True; Break; end; Inc(Counter); end; if NOT PassOK then begin ShowMessage('Exceeded maximum number of tries. ' + 'Press OK to terminate.'); Application.Terminate; end;end;
This simple password validation gives the user three tries to come up with the correct password. You could be more elaborate by using a resource file with a string resource that is read at run time.
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