PrintScreen key trapping

[putts]

Is there a way to detect when a user uses the printScreen key and run some code before the system does its screen capture.

I'm assuming there isn't because printScreen is a system function, but thought maybe there was something I don't know about that could help me here.

[montroze]

Don't think so, thier are also many 3rd party programs to take screen captures, and also all the person has to do is go into their Temp Int Files/cache and the pictures will already be thier.

[putts]

Somewhat nice thing is that I don't have to worry about internet saavy people cuz this is an in-house intranet project and most of my users wouldn't even know what a cache is (nor how to pronounce it for that matter).

[Jon Hanlon]

You are correct in thinking that it's an OS function and not done by the browser.
What did you want to do, anyway?

[putts]

WE have an employee directory that I've developed at my work and it has a picture for every employee, but the supervisors don't want their employees spending time downloading the files and messing with them (putting them on some cartoon body or drawing mustaches - stupid stuff that bored employees do). I was able to get rid of the right click and save option, but can't restrict them from print screening it and pasting it into paint or whatever.

[Jon Hanlon]

Well even if the employees download the pictures and deface them there's no way they can post the pictures back into the directory, so what's the problem?

And I'm sure at least one of them's heard of the cache, or will mention to an Internet savvy buddy over a beer "Boy, I'd love to draw a breasts on my boss' photo, but...".

If the supervisors are worried about employees wasting time by vandalising photos then I suggest the supervisors get on and do what they're paid for - supervision.

[montroze]

just another take off from Jon's reply,

And I'm sure at least one of them Knows that No'No-Right-Click' scripts work.

[putts]

Firstly, I don't have to worry about the re-uploading to the site after defacement thing, it's more or less - print screen to get the pic, deface it somehow, email it to all their friends - kinda thing.

Secondly, Montroze, how do you get around the no-right-click scripts. They only thing that pops into my head is to Save the page on the computer and that would d/l the picture with all the web files (yet again, one of those internet saavy things)

Thirdly, I don't have to worry as much about drawing boobs on people seeing that 80% of my user base are women and the pics are only of the face.:)

[Jon Hanlon]

Boy, talk about paranoid!

Firstly, I don't have to worry about the re-uploading to the site after defacement thing, it's more or less - print screen to get the pic, deface it somehow, email it to all their friends - kinda thing.


How about:
Take photo of screen.
Scan photo in to Photoshop.
Deface photo and Email.
Or Even:
Draw funny cartoon of person.
Scan in to computer and Email.

Serously though, I wouldn't call doing File Save As as being particularly Internet savvy, I think you're underestimating these people.

Try this:
In Internet Explorer on a page with some images , do ctrl-A ctrl-C (Edit Select All & Edit Copy).
Now switch to MS-Word and do ctrl-P (Edit Paste).
Viola!!

So now you can go back to the idiots and explain that there's no practical way of stopping people from getting the images.

And further to my earlier comments that these 'supervisors' should start supervising, they'd be better off addressing the obvious morale crisis that they're facing rather than worrying about image pilfering.

[putts]

Serously though, I wouldn't call doing File Save As as being particularly Internet savvy, I think you're underestimating these people.

Nope. My average user is 35 year old female. To them, computer saavy is being able to change their background. Trust me, Saving a webpage and then actually being able to find it in a file manager, my god, that would be computer genius to these people.

At any rate, I was ticked off when I was told that the supervisors (these being the same supes that will pull key-card entry logs to see if someone is 2 minutes late from lunch) threw a fit about it. I just wanted to devote enough research time to tell them that I tried.

Thanks for the posts.