Facilitated by Elanor Buchanan.

This session will be dedicated to showing the best entries in the coding challenge to store login details for LiveCode apps.

The challenge is this:

How do I store login details for my LiveCode app?

A lot of apps will remember your login details (username etc) so you don’t have to type them in every time. An app might also allow you to login using a fingerprint.

How would you store these details for a LiveCode app? Would you choose:

-simple text file
-structured json, xml or similar
-an encoded array
-a database
-if you store the password(s) how would you protect it?

How would you read in and store the details in your app:

-call a function that reads the stored data every time
-load the details into a script local variable
-load the details into custom properties
-some other solution (we’re interested to know if you have a different approach!)

How to enter
As with many things in LiveCode, there is more than one way to solve this problem. We’d like to collect as many examples of different solutions as we can fit into the 50 minutes. To enter your solution, send us a short (approx 5 minute video) which you can upload here:

https://www.dropbox.com/request/qd2vEmWqkr5yOxWkHfMM

Some hints on creating videos:
Video recording can be using any standard screen capture software. Videos will be uploaded to youtube so any format they accept will be fine (almost anything!). Please record your videos with small screens in mind. If you have a huge screen and you record code using the whole of it in high resolution, the effect will be tiny unreadable print on playback. Change your resolution to something bigger, with lower resolution. Zoom in on code. Speak clearly and turn the volume up – if your audio is too quiet in the webinar session there is nothing we can do to fix it.

The best solutions will be shown during the session, and we will discuss the merits of different ways of tackling this problem.

We look forward to receiving your entry!

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