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Re: Best practice example for a setup wizard?
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Re: Best practice example for a setup wizard?


  • Subject: Re: Best practice example for a setup wizard?
  • From: Ian Piper <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:53:01 +0000

Thanks for all the replies. I am inclined to agree - the last thing I want is to build something that looks like a Windows application! And I get the issue of not bugging the user with a tedious setup process. The idea of having preset values that the user can change if he wants to is the way to go, I'm sure.

OK, perhaps I need to rethink how this works. Given that the underlying purpose is to authenticate the user to allow access to an encrypted database, would it make more sense for me to use the user's Mac OS X account credentials? Is there a way (I hesitate to use the phrase "best practice" again) for my program to authenticate the user that way?

Regards,


Ian.
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On 13 Jan 2010, at 22:54, Marcel Weiher wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> well, in a sense the lack of examples *is* illustrating the best practices concerning setup wizards :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marcel
>
>
> On Jan 13, 2010, at 9:54 , Ian Piper wrote:
>
>> For one of my applications I want to do a check at startup to see whether a profile and password has been set for the current user, and if not to take them through a setup wizard. I'm sure I can mug my way through writing this but it feels like the kind of thing for which there might be an example illustrating best practice. Can anyone point me at some documentation or examples that might help?
>

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