You could try and save your vector data, or SVG, in a database (SQL)
and retrieve your map through remoting.
you would then only need to parse back the vector data in Flash. But
then I guess this could be tough on the user's CPU !
Alain
Stanford Vinson wrote:
Some excellent ideas here. Thanks!
I am not so worried about the screen shots. However, I AM worried about
people extracting my very complex vector graphics, scaling them anyway
they choose and printing any dimensions etc that they want and maybe
reselling in a market I would never think to check. I had considered
something along the way of the SVG solution you suggest Michael, but yes
its WAY to much extra work as far as I can imagine.
If anyone else is inspired to give me his 2 cents worth as to how to
construct the loading of a maps graphical elements to make it difficult to
reconstruct, I'm all ears.
All the best,
L. Stanford Vinson
www.wegame.dk
On 9/14/07, Stanford Vinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am looking for a way to make it very difficult for a user who
downloads
my flash APP to extract the graphics. Can anyone help? Here is my
situation:
Do all you want, but you'll never prevent anyone from taking screenshots.
I've heard (and I don't know if this is true or not) that mapmaking
companies will actually occasionally make up a street (like an
out-of-the way cul-de-sac or something). That way, if someone copies
them (as opposed to doing the actual legwork), they can prove it.
One safeguard I can think of would be to create a proprietary format
(preferably binary) for vectors and then render it in Flash using
Graphics objects. You could save out the vector maps as SVG files,
write some code to translate SVG to your format, and then have your
live app use the proprietary format. That would be a lot of work,
though. Again, ti wouldn't prevent anyone from taking screenshots, but
it would make stealing the vector source much much harder.
--
T. Michael Keesey
Director of Technology
Exopolis, Inc.
2894 Rowena Avenue Ste. B
Los Angeles, California 90039
http://exopolis.com/
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http://tmkeesey.net/
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