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all in all. I have a flash slide show that loads a new html window separately. I have right click disabled, but need to disable file>save as, as well. A chromeless window could solve this, but I can't really launch a chromeless window from flash.
There isnt a way to do this. Even disabling right click, if i really want your content, i can just view --> page source or disable the javascript. In a chromeless window i just press ctrl + n and it opens in a new window. Anyway if the images are saved in a flv file many people wont have the software to play it.
If you put content on the Internet for people to view, someone can get to it; it’s as simple as that. You can get around it with something as trivial as View Source or by pressing the menu key on a keyboard. If that fails, you can still disable JavaScript or access the browser cache.
Disabling right‐clicking annoys people and stops only users that are not tech savvy or those that give up easily, at best.
Everyone time this question arises, everyone always responds with a lecture about how you can't protect it, anyone can get around it, don't try it. ETC
One thing you have to remember is there are clients that want certain things. In this case, and 80 year man with lots of money. He knows what he wants.
In essence, as long as I can show him that he can print, screen capture, copy, etc from the basic easy ways, he's happy. It's copywritten material that is very valuable.
For my stuff, I would never do all this crap. but it's for him
I think I figured it out though, if all worked, I'll post the solution for the flash/picture/html/chromeless etc
It's understandable, a determined web savvy person can always get it, but yes the general public can be detered quite easily, and probably should be if possible. Could you not load the url of the file into a frameless window with js? This would also require atleast for part of the viewing that js be enabled?
It's understandable, a determined web savvy person can always get it, but yes the general public can be detered quite easily, and probably should be if possible. Could you not load the url of the file into a frameless window with js? This would also require atleast for part of the viewing that js be enabled?
The image is within a flash slide show, I'm not too flash savy. Then I realized I was using an XML file to pull the images, and also link out to the actual .jpgs larger, outside the slide show.
Can I put JS inside an XML file ok? I could load chromeless windows from there
Well what you could do is embed the swf in an html file then encode the html. People couldnt click file --> save as, and it would confuse people looking through the source... but people could still download in firefox...
If you right click the slideshow within the HTML file and print, it prints a blank page If you file>print, it prints a blank page. CNTRL/ALT etc is disabled If you screen shot, nothing appears when you paste (constantly clears cache)
You then click the flash image to open a large .jpg in an HTML window and everything is the same.
ALSO, in IE, you choose to diable all the javascript, to get around it. So I used Javascript to disable the image. It won't view without javascript being enabled, hence the code. I haven't finished testing, but I'm pretty damned sure I'm getting close.
I know anyone can hack it, it's easy. But I've never done this much crap to one page, and it's pretty freaking hard for your average user! :-)
that's the best you can hope for sadly. Good job getting this far though
Ya, now time to figure out why IE 6.0 is saying I got errors on my page, but no other browser does (not even IE 7 <--- hate. hate. hate.) hehe :cracks knuckles:
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