[vb6]password protection

[Chad]

I'm writing this right here because i'm so BOOOOREEEDDDDDDD And i wanna program but can't because i'm not home so here this is

What you need
1 text box - txtPassword
1 Command button - cmdSubmit

Option Explicit

Private Sub cmdSubmit_click()
      If (txtPassword.text = ("Password")) Then
            Call Msgbox ("Access granted",vbinformation,"Success")
      Else
            Call Msgbox ("Access denied",vbinformation,"Error")
     End if
End Sub

[MattSmith]

This is easily by-passable >.< No offense but it is.

[Chad]

I know this is. I have an encryption one I made when I first started and it's really hard to bypass but this is just for noobs.

[Bman]

Hey chad, when you get back home, dont forget to add me.

ontopic : this is easy to bypass, but useful to somepeople. I want to see the encrypted one when you get home ;D

[Bman]

How would you bypass it?

Also, you don't need the () around "Password"

You can bypass it with hex editing and stuff. not quite sure, because I've never done it, but I know that you need a hex editor.

Also, the Brackets help contain data

They aren't required though :p

[Chad]

How would you bypass it?

Also, you don't need the () around "Password"

I know it's not needed but it's good programming practice and it's also cleaner.

[MattSmith]

How would you bypass it?

Also, you don't need the () around "Password"

Simple hex editing. And there are specific programs for changing strings and stuff like that in programs.

[Artificial]

How would you bypass it?

Also, you don't need the () around "Password"

Believe it or not the password would actually appear in plaintext if you opened it in any text editor.

[Chad]

The standard is actually to not use parenthesis where they aren't required, because it's cleaner without them. >_>

It is cleaner and better practice. Don't know who or were you were told that your not suppose to use them but it is cleaner. Helps keep information organized.

[Chad]

lol. Not around strings, you don't. You use them around functions, operators, etc., but not around something that isn't part of a group.
It's debatable as to whether or to use them around a multiple if statement:
if ((part1 == 2) && (part2 == 3))
versus
if (part1 == 2 && part2 == 3)
Because it groups the sections of the if statement.
However, a single string isn't being grouped with anything but itself. The point of grouping is so that you can see what all that string/statement/whatever is a part of. It's obviously a part of itself and doesn't need parenthesis to denote that.

Honestly I want to know why your trying to fight back in a simple subject that you could have let go. You program the way you want to, messy. I'll program the way I want, Clean. End of discussion.

[Chad]

Any post about the parenthesis after this is spam.

[Nat]

What is possibly the point of this "password protection"?

[Chris]

What is possibly the point of this "password protection"?

To only allow people with the password to run the program, but as previously stated it is very easily bypassed.

[Nat]

To only allow people with the password to run the program, but as previously stated it is very easily bypassed.

Haha no I understood that obviously, just poking fun at how easily bypassed it is.

[Chad]

Haha no I understood that obviously, just poking fun at how easily bypassed it is.

If you under stood it then why did you post?

[Nat]

Oh alright. Sorry didn't understand that.