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/ > -- > http://tmkeesey.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > To change your subscription options or search the archive: > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software > Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training > http://www.figleaf.com > http://training.figleaf.com > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
