How do I get rid of macromedia dialog box??

[superbones]

I have created a flash picture and put it up on web site. I use flash to prevent people from stealing pictures. However if you right click on the picture link below. You will see that the "About Macromedia Flash Player 5" dialog box comes up. How do I get rid of this, since it is not in the action script that I created

http://www.hobby.com/dunebuggy.html

This does not do me any good, since the user can go to the macromedia site, download a free version and then save all the pictures he wants!

If I am able to get rid of this box, the user will not know what kind of file this is, and therefore be unlikely to find out its a flash file.

The idea is... I want to prevent people from being able to save, print,cache any of my pictures.


please reply here....help!!
wgannon@ix.netcom.com

 

[oldnewbie]

You can't get rid of it!

Anyways, all I have to do is capture my screen to copy your picture and do whatever I wish to it.

Regards,

 

[superbones]

If you look you will see that I have scrambled the code, you cannot view code, cannot save it (unless you have flash on your computer, your browser cannot find the .swf file) cannot print it either, print screen doesn't work either.can't be cached because file expires. Only problem is dialog box alerts a savvy user that this is a flash file, and they might download flash to view and save it.

 

[oldnewbie]

You'd have to alter the coding of the swf file itself... And that's very touchy!

Anyways, I could still copy it!
As I have done here with ALT->Print Screen:

http://odin.prohosting.com/~oldnew/cantcopy.htm

Only sure way of not getting your pictures copied is puuting them in a safe not on the web!

Regards,

 

[coldfused]

lol.....now thats funny.....

a safe...lol...

carlsatterwhite@orlandomediasolutions.com

 

[superbones]

your right theres always a way, a screen capture can do it, but 90% of users wouldn't think of it. There must be a way to defeat dialog box...after all they put it in there, must be a way to take it out. Or possibly mask it..I have tried using mouse over tricks and mouse invisible to prevent it but didn't work yet.

Oh well thanks for your time

 

[Guest_imported]

Check back your actionscript dictionary/reference and look up "fscommand". It says that the "About Macromedia..." right-click menu CANNOT be done away.

BTW, I have a project (.exe) to be published. Does anyone know if I can do away the windows title bar?

 

[thatrenowned]

What about getting one of those applets which bring up a popup box when people right click? You know...when you click it says something like 'Sorry, this page is copyrighted' etc.

At least that disables the mouse button, but if you use the key which is in between 'Alt Gr' and 'Ctrl' (it is on British keyboards anyway) it has the same effect as right click but isn't stopped by this applet.
I doubt many people would think of this solution, so if you can get hold of that applet it may help you (unfortunately I don't have it).

Rgds.

 

[superbones]

thatrenowned>>>>>I have written the javascript code, that you are referencing, and I am already using this on the web page link shown above.

EELL>>>>>>>>>>>Yes, I even called macromedia to try to convince them to let me get around the dialog box...Not a chance. The only way I see is actually deconstructing the actual.swf files the way macromedia creates them, and building them without the dialog box from scratch. Something that would be against the rules as far as macromedia is concerned I am sure.


oldnewbie>>>>>>is correct you can screen capture the screen with an outside SC program, however I think 95% of casual typically uninformed surfers will not do this.


And in case your wondering,(and some of you are based on the emails I have gotten),the picture that I have posted IS OBVIOUSLY NOT the pictures that I am trying to protect.

So it seems that you cannot get rid of the dialog box , without some serious modification to the .swf file...Which I am unable to do, and unlikely to be able to do in the near future.

 

[funkymonk]

Ok, I don't understand what the fuss is about.

You can't right click on flash and grab anything. Going to the Macromedia site from the right click menu takes you to a page where you can download a version of flash, view the showcase and it also tells you the player is installed sucsesfully. That's all.

This does not do me any good, since the user can go to the macromedia site, download a free version and then save all the pictures he wants!

By this do you mean Download Flash? Protect your movie from import then! As for stopping your swf from caching then I know there's a way of stopping people from playing your movie unless it's online, the guy at

http://www.shockanime.com

did it to his movie, Genyru's Blade. Contact him and find out how he does it, I'm sure he'd be glad to help although I can't see what problem this would be either.

Seems to me trying to get rid of something that does nothing to breach the security of your site is a waste of time. funkymonk B-)

rod@sameplanet.co.uk
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[oldnewbie]

Your last choice might be to start playing around with Hex editing...

http://www.filestream.com/turbobrowser2001/features.html

PS: But I repeat, the Alt->PrintScrn will allways permit to easily grab your pictures without 3rd party software, and while I'm no computer wiz kid, I found that out on my own!
IMHO, so would many average users!

Regards,

 

[TFfan]

May I offer a low-tech solution?

Disclaimer: this will not stop people from Screen capping, but for everything else it might be succesful.

Take whatever picture you want protected into PS, and use the slice tool to chop up your pic into as many pieces as you want (you can make them 1px/1px if you took the time). Then export the file as HTML and it'll code the pieces into a table. Then scramble your HTML code and do all that other nonsense.

Anyone visiting your site will not notice, but people trying to right click and save (you could even disable this) will get only a small portion of it. depending on the size of the individual pieces, it could take hours for someone to save all the pieces and assemble them in PS--I doubt anyone would want your pictures that badly.

 

[frozenpeas]

Listen to oldnewbie.

Anyone who would know enough to right-click and save the picture or look at your source code, is going to be savvy enough to take a screen shot.

I think you are going to a lot of extra trouble for nothing.