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How can I create a time-limited "evaluation" copy of a LabVIEW executable?

I would like to issue a time-limited evaluation copy of a LabVIEW executable to a recalcitrant client. Has anybody tried to do this before and how?
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You can check the current date in the begining of your program.
Make something like the *.ini and save there the date when the program was run in the first time. Then each time compare the current date with the date in this file. When the time limit will be expired you may show the message box and stop the program.
All you need is to use the
Time&Dialog/Get Date/Time functions.

Don't forget to hide this file somewhere in system directories as Windows\system for example. In other case user can find it and replace with another one.
And stop the program each time when you cann't find this file.

Oleg Chutko.
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