Pack up the client?

[Thesnowman]

Okay so I was interested in starting developing clients for pokemon servers but I was wondering is there a way you can pack the client up to closed source so they can't see all the image files and stuff and just make a launcher where it will basically run the start-client.bat when clicked play after it downloads patches? I'm not great at coding, I'll learn but I am interested in customizing the client graphics and maps and stuff. Just don't want people to rip and claim them as there's without giving credit.
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[xkl]

This probably isn't the answer you want, but you could do this. Just right click on the 'res' folder then select hidden under attributes then click apply. Now that folder will be hidden unless you have show hidden files, folders, or drives enabled.

[Thesnowman]

But what I am talking about is say I create a installer. That installs the game to someones PC. I dont want them to be able to change the IP in my client to connect to any server. And instead of using the .bat to start the client i want there to be a launcher that will see if theres new patches from a website. And then download them. And then once done, allow the person to start.

That way say I do a lot of custom work for a client, i want it closed source for certian servers. Not able to use on any server

[xkl]

You can use Clickteam install creator for making an installation for your client. Just use the hidden files, folders etc. option I suggested before packing it into a installer. That way normal uses cant see the client files or whatever you wanna hide. For a launcher, just use DefaulT's open source launcher then make the installer send a desktop shortcut of the launcher. That's the easiest way I can think of :)

[notspambot]

Or use google, windows comes with an installer creator...

[newbie1]

i think you like this iexpress its in windows self

it makes 1 .exe file for the client en run i tryed it out with other projects and it works...

look in C:\Windows\System32\iexpress.exe it's a wizard to make it so its pretty easy. zo not youtube is you're best friend.

[notspambot]

But what I am talking about is say I create a installer. That installs the game to someones PC. I dont want them to be able to change the IP in my client to connect to any server. And instead of using the .bat to start the client i want there to be a launcher that will see if theres new patches from a website. And then download them. And then once done, allow the person to start.

That way say I do a lot of custom work for a client, i want it closed source for certian servers. Not able to use on any server

Just have the IP hardcoded? Remove where it loads from serverlist or w/e its called and replace everything it loads with the actual IP address.

If you do this, I suggest removing the entire server list.

[xkl]

You can make it where the client loads the servers.txt from a web host. There is a guide for it. It works, I tested it out. :)

http://forum.ragezone.com/f705/relea...update-761173/

[notspambot]

or, yet again, have it hard coded.

[-DefaulT]

What hes asking isnt to make it hidden, my advise, look up an open source file type coded in java, then implement it into your client and when u build make it build the resources into one file type (the file type would need to be some sort of archive like .bin etc) then make the client read the file types to navigate the resources and use what it needs.

Quite a bit of work imo.

[2lifetodeath]

To have total Security, Figure out how to make it a webclient.