GWS File contains "too much" information

[+Kruemelbrot]

Hi,

 

yesterday someone tried my cartridge, but aborted. Later on, he had a look at the GWS File. At the end of my Wherigo, I show some coordinates of the bonus cache in a dialog. This dialog can't appear at the beginning or something. The final zone containing this dialog is invisible and inactive. The GWL file confirms: He never entered the final zone.

 

Why is the GWS File containing ALL informations about the zones? Perhaps there's something wrong with my cartridge? I can reproduce this behaviour in the builder...

 

Any help would be appreciated!

 

Thanks!

Krümelbrot

[matejcik]

this has to do with the way cartridge saving works.

in short, to properly save/restore a cartridge, the save file has to contain everything the program knows at the "save" moment.

your program knows that the dialog exists, and it will need to "remember" it later. that is why it must be saved.

(if you want to know why, i can elaborate)

 

no way around it, really. the best you can do is to not include the coordinates in the cartridge at all - and calculate them by a formula or something like that, only when they are really needed

[+Kruemelbrot]

Thanks a lot for this information! I removed the coordinates now. Good to know, how the cartridge save works!

 

Thanks and regards

Krümelbrot

[Silly Walker]

Maybe you can put the coordinates in a .jpg, then they can't read it!

[matejcik]

Maybe you can put the coordinates in a .jpg, then they can't read it!

 

except when they extract media from gwc. (it's pretty easy, it has been done many times)

 

There. Is. No. Security. In. Wherigo. Cartridges.

there are ways you can make it moderately difficult for attackers (obfuscating text is a nice one) to extract information

but the only way to make it really difficult, borderline impossible, is to not include something in the cartrdige and generate the missing information from something the players type in manually. just like mystery/multicaches