- Basics
- Getting started with LimeLM
- Types of software licensing
- What are Activations & Deactivations?
- How hardware-locked licensing and online activation works
- How to switch your licensing to LimeLM, TurboActivate, and TurboFloat
- Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
- Adding users to manage your LimeLM account
- Custom license fields
- Extra activation data
- Using TurboActivate
- Timed trials in your app
- Basics for TurboFloat (floating licenses)
- TurboFloat Server
- Using TurboFloat
- Advanced
- Account security
- Offline activation
- How to generate product keys after an order
- SaaS and time-limited licensing
- Proxies in TurboActivate
- Licensing multiple products per process
- Licensing from inside a virtual machine or hypervisor
- Web API
- LimeLM web API functions
- Overview
- Encoding
- Response Formats
- REST
- JSON
- feature
- add
- delete
- edit
- getAll
- pkey
- activity
- advancedSearch
- deactivate
- delete
- find
- generate
- getDetails
- getID
- manualActivation
- manualDeactivation
- removeTag
- revoke
- setDetails
- setTags
- prod
- getAll
- create
- createVers
- changeName
- editVers
- tag
- delete
- test
- echo
- trial
- advancedSearch
- manualVerifiedTrial
- trialExtension
- delete
- generate
- getDetails
- getID
- search
Using TurboActivate
TurboActivate is the part of LimeLM you include with your app, allowing you to add online and offline activation. TurboActivate comes in 2 parts: the library and the wizard. The TurboActivate library must be included with your application to add trial support along with serial number and online activation protection to your app.
The TurboActivate wizard is completely optional but recommended. It's a pre-written activation wizard (like you see when you install Microsoft Office) that you can include with your app. Read more about using the TurboActivate wizard.
Use any programming language
You can integrate TurboActivate with any language and any program that runs on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux. Here are some tutorials:
- Using TurboActivate with Adobe AIR
- Using TurboActivate with C#
- Using TurboActivate with C, C++, & Objective-C
- Using TurboActivate with Delphi
- Using TurboActivate with Go
- Using TurboActivate with NodeJS or Electron
- Using TurboActivate with Java
- Using TurboActivate with Python
- Using TurboActivate with Xojo (Real Studio / Real Basic)
- Using TurboActivate with Visual Basic 6 (VB6)
- Using TurboActivate with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
- Using TurboActivate with Visual Basic .NET
If you're making a Mac OS X or Linux app you should also check out these articles:
You can also integrate TurboActivate within your installer:
- Using TurboActivate with Inno Setup
- Using TurboActivate with NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)
Need to integrate TurboActivate with another language and you're not sure how? Ask us on the forum.
Requirements for TurboActivate
TurboActivate works on Windows Vista through Windows 11, macOS (Mac OS X), Linux, and BSD:
- Windows
- Windows Vista
- Windows 2008 (and 2008 R2)
- Windows 7
- Windows 2012 (and 2012 R2)
- Windows 8 (and Windows 8.1)
- Windows 10
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2022
- Windows 11
- macOS
- 10.9 and newer
- Linux
- Oldest supported LTS releases (e.g. RHEL 7 / CentOS 7) and newer (see: Linux dependencies)
- FreeBSD
- FreeBSD 12.0 and newer
There are no external dependencies. Also, TurboActivate works on the following CPU architectures:
- Windows: x86 and x64 (a.k.a. Intel / AMD 32-bit and 64-bit) and ARM64
- macOS: Universal binary for Intel 64-bit & ARM64 ("Apple Silicon")
- Linux: x86, x64, ARM 32-bit (ARMv7-A & ARMv8-A), and ARM64
- FreeBSD: x86 and x64