Carl Edlund Anderson wrote at 1:50 PM (-0500) on 7/21/10:
Matt's solution (having the license key in the clipboard when opening DB) works though. I'm sure I remember doing that before, so it may be in the readme or other documentation. (Admittedly, not a wholly intuitive approach, but hey ....)
So, as everybody has noticed, the new build fails to recognize existing registration keys under a lot of circumstances. For the technically inclined, this appears to be a result of some change in how NSUserDefaults/CFPreferences (two Mac OS facilities for storing preferences) behave when a program is built against the 10.5 SDK. Previous builds were linked against the 10.4 SDK. Back in the day, when you activated Doggiebox and if your user had admin privileges, the registration key would be written to /Library/ Preferences/Network/ca.zygoat.doggiebox.plist. This "Network" subdirectory, so far as I can tell, is not how things are done anymore and the system routines no longer look there. Going forward, Doggiebox stores the reg key file under /Library/Preferences/, or its counterpart in the user's home directory. The somewhat obscure method of activation -- copying the registration key to the clipboard, and then relaunching -- has been the process since day one, which I designed to be clever and easy for the first-time user. Of course, it is also completely non-obvious if you don't happen have your key and instructions at hand! Anyway, the bottom line is that once re-activated, Doggiebox (all versions) should resume working as previously. BTW, Carl... congratulations on the kid! :) -ben -- Ben Kennedy (chief magician) zygoat creative technical services http://www.zygoat.ca