Chameleon versions 3.3.175 and later contain an extra object accessible through the Chameleon API called the License object. This object allows you to programmatically register Chameleon on a user's machine without any user input.

Starting in version 4.5, the Registration API allows you to register Chameleon without the machine to register having a direct connection to the Internet. This is useful for companies that want to automate the registration code setup for Chameleon. To provide some context for when this functionality would be useful, let's consider the following licensing process:

• Company XYZ generates a key file for Customer ABC.
• Customer ABC sends the key file to Company XYZ.
• Company XYZ sends a registration file to Customer ABC.

To make it easy for companies to incorporate Chameleon into their existing licensing process, changes were made to the Registration API to allow you to accomplish the following:

• Generate a unique Machine ID for the host machine.
• Request a non-expiring license for the Machine ID using the user name and password for the host member account. This can be accomplished either from a centrally located computer, or from the actual host machine.
• Apply the registration code to the host machine.

This process makes it easy for companies to get the machine IDs centrally using their own licensing, meaning they can add the extra Chameleon information to their own license file.

To help you use the License object, coding examples are provided for some of the most common programming languages: