Got error number -905 from AppleEvent

[andre.tremblay]

Hello Mark.

After installing the latest SuperCard Player from “SuperCard 4.81 Beta 2“ with “SuperCard Player Install.dmg”.

1- It seems the delivery application name changed from “SuperCard Player” to “SuperCard 4.8 Player”.

2- Evaluating an AppleEvent to a remote  “SuperCard 4.8 Player“ application as the target application returns: 

Got error number -905 from AppleEvent -> Could not read version header from host

3- Evaluating an AppleEvent to a local  “SuperCard 4.8 Player“ application as the target application returns: 

Missing Value

4- Evaluating an AppleEvent to a remote  “SuperCard 4.8 Player“ beta 1 from an SuperCard 4.8 Beta 2 application worked normally until Beta 1 expired. 

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Would it be possible to provide a warning message when a beta application expires, the disabling of the application without any feedback caused some confusions at the office today. 

Regards

André Tremblay

PhotoGraphex

[codegreen]

I'm not sure what's going on with those network errors (that's what a -905 is) -- I'll look into it tomorrow. A lot of the manual plist key generation and localization during the build was automated in this update, which is presumably how the bundle name changed slightly.

As for a warning message that would certainly be POSSIBLE, but alas it's not likely to happen. The reason is it would give someone trying to crack the expiration a hopelessly obvious place to start looking.

All SC betas have a global property called the expirationDate though, which you can (and probably should) inspect when you install them so you know when their rendezvous with the reaper is scheduled to happen. If this is really a problem for you it also wouldn't be hard to add a little script to your sharedFile which reminded you each launch how long you had until it expired...

-Mark