The company I work for does online surveys (amongst other things) and they can include showing people images of proposed products/campaigns/etc. A client asked if we can keep our panelists from keeping copies.
Our response has been, "No. But we can make it a little more difficult." So they asked us to research any means for making it more difficult that we could come up with. I couldn't think of any way to get around the Print Screen key, so I thought I'd ask here and see if anyone else had done it. I like the cleverness of the System.setClipboard method, except that it could make for a poor user experience and doesn't completely fix the problem. C'est la vie. Thank you all for sharing your insights with me. ^_^ -------------------------------- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delvinia 214 King Street West, Suite 214 Toronto Canada M5H 3S6 P 416.364.1455 ext. 232 F 416.364.9830 W www.delvinia.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This email message may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient or received this communication by error, please notify the sender and delete the message without copying or disclosing it. AVIS DE CONFIDENTIALITÉ Ce message peut contenir de l'information légalement privilégiée ou confidentielle. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire ou croyez avoir reçu par erreur ce message, nous vous saurions gré d'en aviser l'émetteur et d'en détruire le contenu sans le communiquer a d'autres ou le reproduire. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of sebastian > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 2:00 PM > To: Flash Coders List > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Disabling Print Screen key > > It's one of those things where 'abuse' comes to mind. Short > of not allowing flash to do such a thing, if such an > overwrite of the clip-board is occurring there should be a > warning to the user, otherwise they might wonder why they > can't use copy-paste anymore! > > I wonder what it is that would be so critical you don't want > a screen shot...? > > I've never seen a system that stops someone from taking a > screen shot when they still really wanted one, in the end > it's just an annoying feature that disrupts everyone's time/sanity! > > With kind, > > Seb. > > Pedro Taranto wrote: > > Thanks for remember that Jim, I forgot to say that it just > worked on > > windows in my tests it didnt work on linux nor mac, but it > was OK for > > the project I developed > > > > but you have to remember that the user wont be able to copy > anything > > while your flash is running, even in the background > > > > -- > > Pedro Taranto > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Jim McIntyre > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> If you have any Macs in your target audience, remember > that the OS's > >> screen capture routine doesn't involve the clipboard, but > creates a > >> PNG file directly on the desktop. > >> > >> Remember too that there is a variety of screen grab utilities out > >> there on either platform... this might be a losing battle. > >> > >> -Jim > >> > >> Pedro Taranto wrote: > >> > >>> In AS2 I used to create an onEnterFrame loop to overwrite the > >>> clipboard content using the System.setClipboard(string) > function, it > >>> still works in > >>> AS3 > >>> > >>> Bests, > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Pedro Taranto > >>> > >>> > >>> Andrew Murphy wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi. :) > >>>> > >>>> I'm attempting to disable using the Print Screen button > for an AS3 > >>>> movie on a web page. The stage doesn't appear to fire a > >>>> KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN when the Print Screen key is pressed. > >>>> > >>>> Is there a way to detect the Print Screen key? Or > another method > >>>> for disabling the user's ability to do a Print Screen > screen cap of > >>>> a Flash movie? > >>>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >> Flashcoders mailing list > >> Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Flashcoders mailing list > > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
