[HOW TO] Lock Applications

**d_sanche** · 06-01-2008, 08:34 PM

I know that this has always been something people wanted, so I finally decided to do something about it today.

Step 1: download, unzip, and place Lock.app in /Applications

Step 2: install Jiggy.app ang Jiggy runtime from installer

Step 3: open Jiggy.app and navigate to the webpage it displays on your iPod's screen

Step 4: open up the main.js of Lock.app

Step 5: edit lines 174 to 184 so that it has the password you want. ( the default is 1,1,1,1,1,1). The lines should end up like this (with the question marks replaced by one-digit numbers of your choice)

Code:

if (sc.selectedSegment == ? )
{
 if (sc2.selectedSegment == ? )
{
 if (sc3.selectedSegment == ? )
{
 if (sc4.selectedSegment == ? )
{
 if (sc5.selectedSegment == ? )
{
 if (sc6.selectedSegment == ? )

Step 6: edit line 186 so it has the identifier of the app you want to lock. You can find the identifier in the app's Info.plist. The default is MobileAddressBook.
It should look like this:

Code:

Application.launchApplicationWithIdentifier("???.?????.???");

Step 7: Hide the original of the app you want to lock with poof

DONE

Optional-
1: replace Lock.app's icon with that of the locked app
2: edit /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/English.lproj/LocalizedApplicationNames.strings so that Lock.app's name apperas as the app you wanted to lock. To do this, I would add

(k e y)com.app.lock (/ k e y )
(s t r i n g) Contacts (/ s t r i n g)

(in < brackets)

for it to appear as Contacts on the home screen

Notes-

You can have more than one Lock.app, just make sure that every Lock.app you install has a different name and indentifier in its info.plist

Hopefully someone with more experience than me can take this and make it easier to manage, but this is good for now.

Edit: screenshots attached

Edit2: Update added. The last one only needed a correct last digit to open, this version fixes the problem

**d_sanche** · 06-01-2008, 09:05 PM

Bump. Come on, no responses?

**Adplaya** · 06-01-2008, 09:44 PM

I dont think anyone has responded because its not so user friendly. I mean to me, it is, if i ever wanted to lock my apps, but to others who need a quick solution this isnt it. Simply poofing the app seems adequate and simple enough to me.

**asmodeus_dhoine** · 06-01-2008, 09:45 PM

Sounds like too much work. And what if someone just unhide it? Insecure.

**d_sanche** · 06-01-2008, 09:52 PM

Ya, I'm sorry I couldn't make it simpler. Maybe someone with more experience could build onto it. If you're worried about poof, you could hide your apps manually by editing the info.plist. Or just lock poof.

**Ximpostrxx** · 06-01-2008, 10:26 PM

i think i'll lock my texting but thats it... i agree with the aforementioned

**Prdirtysouth49** · 06-01-2008, 10:38 PM

seems like a great idea but would be alot better if it was as simple as picking a program, setting a password and locking it

**tombonez** · 06-01-2008, 11:48 PM

Very nice

**d_sanche** · 06-02-2008, 12:33 AM

A bug has been brought to my attention where you only need to know the last number to gain access to the locked apo. I have fixed this problem, but I will have to upload the updated app tomorrow

**rawbdee** · 06-02-2008, 12:01 PM

I think I would be into this but not without making it a seperate app with a user friendly gui.

**tweaker** · 06-02-2008, 01:41 PM

Thanks d_sanche.

It's a good start. Too bad I don't know how to do this to my phone because I would definitely attempt this. I guess I'll just have to wait for a user-friendly GUI version.

**iphonejeff** · 06-02-2008, 09:20 PM

where is the noob friendly version?

**Chase817** · 06-02-2008, 10:43 PM

if you could get some help from a dev and make a gui version, im sure a lot of people would like this

**zsuns** · 06-02-2008, 10:46 PM

Thanks bro, i don't think it's really that difficult, i already locked all of my apps i wanted to be locked in a matter of 10 minutes =]

**dlubbat** · 06-02-2008, 10:47 PM

Pretty cool but too much work. Good work though man

**zsuns** · 06-02-2008, 10:58 PM

Anyone upp to compiling this into one simple app. ?

**rasbill** · 06-03-2008, 12:10 AM

this is fantastic, just what i wanted, the only thing i ask is if you can make the password a text entry box, because this is just to visual, people can clearly see my password as i enter it.

**TatesMan** · 06-03-2008, 04:16 AM

I am with rasbill
and I hope to see a GUI version soon

**MattMac** · 06-03-2008, 07:41 AM

Great job.
Finally someone has managed to make this app. Although it requires an amount of user programming, a GUI is defiantly not hard to make from here. Get onto some devs if you need a hand. They would be glad to help.
Thanks for the time put into this. I'm sure once the wrinkles are ironed out you'll be quite respected by many!

**reznor9** · 06-03-2008, 08:55 AM

here here! Sweet start! people have been bugging the devs for an app like this for a long time. Congrats to you for finally making one.

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