VBA Coding Trick
Hi,
I want to know if there is any trick or tip to make my code looks complicated or hard to understand or a way to re-write or add to the code more lines so no one can take my work. My manager wants me to keep the code open and show it to my colleagues. Although, we don’t work in programming we are in a totally different field. Anyway, long story short I need to make the code complicated “just looking hard to read” until I finish the program so no one steal my Idea. Thanx |
VBA Coding Trick
On 11/07/2012 8:01 PM, sam99 wrote:
Hi, I want to know if there is any trick or tip to make my code looks complicated or hard to understand or a way to re-write or add to the code more lines so no one can take my work. My manager wants me to keep the code open and show it to my colleagues. Although, we don’t work in programming we are in a totally different field. Anyway, long story short I need to make the code complicated “just looking hard to read” until I finish the program so no one steal my Idea. Thanx Hi Well, for those in your company who have no idea of workbook protection and how to easily crack it you could try that, conversely any good knowledgeable programmer will have it cracked within a couple of minutes using a 3rd party hack program ( like the one I use on files that have been created by others long gone from the company ) which need some tweaking and T.L.C. I would be careful of what you are doing though, you may want to go back to your employment contract/agreement and see if there is a clause pertaining to intellectual property whilst in their employ. Many companies write it in to protect themselves and to ensure anything that is created on their paying time belongs to them, regardless. My contract has such a clause and I work for a transport company, not a blue-chip investment or programming development organization. Any good programmer regardless of the field, will/should be able to read through code to ascertain it's function and in all likelihood, shorten it to his/her level if they're in the Guru category. HTH Mick. |
VBA Coding Trick
The term you are probably looking for is obfuscate or obfuscation. Try
searching together with VBA and perhaps Excel. In essence, replace all variable names with meaningless characters. You can do it manually though there are addins out there which purport to do it all automatically. Regards, Peter T |
VBA Coding Trick
A good option is to get VB6 and move code to a VB6 activeX dll.
Coding is very similar to VBA and nobody can see your code. Still should be available on things like eBay. RBS "sam99" wrote in message ... Hi, I want to know if there is any trick or tip to make my code looks complicated or hard to understand or a way to re-write or add to the code more lines so no one can take my work. My manager wants me to keep the code open and show it to my colleagues. Although, we don't work in programming we are in a totally different field. Anyway, long story short I need to make the code complicated "just looking hard to read" until I finish the program so no one steal my Idea. Thanx -- sam99 |
VBA Coding Trick
sam99 wrote:
I want to know if there is any trick or tip to make my code looks complicated or hard to understand or a way to re-write or add to the code more lines so no one can take my work. My manager wants me to keep the code open and show it to my colleagues. Although, we don’t work in programming we are in a totally different field. Anyway, long story short I need to make the code complicated “just looking hard to read” until I finish the program so no one steal my Idea. Switch to a different language, one that none of them knows and would never understand. Malebolge or Befunge or Brainf*ck or... -- - That's your problem. - Actually it's not. |
Thanx everyone these Ideas are really helpful
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