RE: [flexcoders] dynamic images and copy protection

2007-10-29 Thread Jim Hayes 
> also the client wants some protection for the images.
That old chestnut! 
You can point out that pressing the printscreen key normally "overrides"
any encryption that you have on images ...
Sometimes that works :-)
 
Last time I had that (years back, in fact) , I built a script that
called ming to embed each image in a swf "wrapper" that had a small
actionscript that detected it's environment (I just used a global
variable) and if that was not right, drew a black square over the image.
It's only trivial protection, but the client was happy that just opening
the files from explorer didn't show the pictures.
Apart from that, really all I had to do was to load a swf rather than a
bitmap, so the application was almost unchanged.
 
Just an idea!
 
Jim.
 
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Subject: [flexcoders] dynamic images and copy protection
 
Another crazy idea from my clients :).

I need to load images from xml, and also the client wants some
protection for the images. The only protection I can think of is to
embed them, but how can i do that if i have an xml which defines the
whole layout and content?

Encrypting them us not an option. Also, they have to run locally, so
loading the images from a server is also not an option.

Any ideas?

Can I embed images with dynamic paths? If so, maybe I can use MTASC
and recompile the SWF every time a picture or something changes.

Thanks
 

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Re: [flexcoders] dynamic images and copy protection

2007-10-29 Thread Abdul Qabiz 
You can load images over URLStream or load images via server-side script
that sets expire headers... You can load images over socket, it wouldn't go
to browser cache at all :)

-abdul

On 10/29/07, flashcrow2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>   Another crazy idea from my clients :).
>
> I need to load images from xml, and also the client wants some
> protection for the images. The only protection I can think of is to
> embed them, but how can i do that if i have an xml which defines the
> whole layout and content?
>
> Encrypting them us not an option. Also, they have to run locally, so
> loading the images from a server is also not an option.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Can I embed images with dynamic paths? If so, maybe I can use MTASC
> and recompile the SWF every time a picture or something changes.
>
> Thanks
>
>  
>



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[flexcoders] dynamic images and copy protection

2007-10-29 Thread flashcrow2000 
Another crazy idea from my clients :).

I need to load images from xml, and also the client wants some
protection for the images. The only protection I can think of is to
embed them, but how can i do that if i have an xml which defines the
whole layout and content?

Encrypting them us not an option. Also, they have to run locally, so
loading the images from a server is also not an option.

Any ideas?

Can I embed images with dynamic paths? If so, maybe I can use MTASC
and recompile the SWF every time a picture or something changes.

Thanks