Re: Blocking screenshots?

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Talluto
On Dec 31, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: For your demo, maybe make everything very pale (20% of normal luminance), but have partial regions of text shown normally as a preview of the full version. ~Roger On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Richmond

Blocking screenshots?

2012-12-31 Thread Richmond
Having made a demo that won't export export anything, and having blocked copying, I realised that crafty types can simply take a screenshot of whatever merry piece of Sanskrit they have typed and use the image however and wherever they like. Now I know that Apple's Quicktime dose not allow

Re: Blocking screenshots?

2012-12-31 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richmond, You could even make a photo of the screen and improve that photo with high-end graphics tools. The best way to protect graphics is by using a watermark, but even then people could simply erase your watermark. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and

Re: Blocking screenshots?

2012-12-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: . . . is anybody aware of how one could block screenshots of all or part of a Livecode standalone? All DRM is ultimately illusory. Anything that can be displayed on a computer can be copied. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting:

Re: Blocking screenshots?

2012-12-31 Thread Richmond
On 12/31/2012 11:43 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Richmond, You could even make a photo of the screen and improve that photo with high-end graphics tools. The best way to protect graphics is by using a watermark, but even then people could simply erase your watermark. And, on that cheery

Re: Blocking screenshots?

2012-12-31 Thread Richmond
On 12/31/2012 11:43 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: . . . is anybody aware of how one could block screenshots of all or part of a Livecode standalone? All DRM is ultimately illusory. Anything that can be displayed on a computer can be copied. Yes, I know that; but it would be

Re: Blocking screenshots?

2012-12-31 Thread Robert Sneidar
Try taking a screen shot of Livecode running a revbrowser and see if the browser content is copied. My guess is that it won't be. If so, then you can display all your content in a browser object. Not sure how other utilities work, they may have a workaround for that. Bob On Dec 31, 2012, at

Re: Blocking screenshots?

2012-12-31 Thread Roger Eller
For your demo, maybe make everything very pale (20% of normal luminance), but have partial regions of text shown normally as a preview of the full version. ~Roger On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, I know that; but it would be rather fun if I could

Re: Blocking screenshots?

2012-12-31 Thread Robert Sneidar
Hey good idea Rooger. Make OCR nearly impossible. Bob On Dec 31, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Roger Eller wrote: For your demo, maybe make everything very pale (20% of normal luminance), but have partial regions of text shown normally as a preview of the full version. ~Roger On Mon, Dec 31,

Re: Blocking screenshots?

2012-12-31 Thread Paul Hibbert
Just thinking out loud… Trap raw key combinations for triggering a screen-grab within your app, different for Mac Win obviously, but probably not too difficult. Trap the Suspend message then dim or hide the appropriate parts so users can't just put your app into the background then take a

Re: Blocking screenshots?

2012-12-31 Thread Robert Sneidar
Never mind Richard. It works a peach when taking a shot of just the window, the browser object is not included, but when drawing a rectangle for the screen shot image, it does in fact include the browser. It was a nice try though. Bob Try taking a screen shot of Livecode running a

Re: Blocking screenshots?

2012-12-31 Thread Richmond
On 01/01/2013 12:13 AM, Paul Hibbert wrote: Just thinking out loud… Trap raw key combinations for triggering a screen-grab within your app, different for Mac Win obviously, but probably not too difficult. Trap the Suspend message then dim or hide the appropriate parts so users can't just

Re: Blocking screenshots?

2012-12-31 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I know that; but it would be rather fun if I could make it reasonably difficult and more time-consuming for my Demo users. shift-command-3 and -4 have taken screen/window shots in mac since 1984 . . . (and