Disable 'Print-Screen' function ?

[747SP]

Hi,

I have a website showing pictures that I don't want everybody to be able to "steal".

I've tried loads of things to make it hard to save the image.

One thing I need to do now is to disable the print-screen funtion.
Is there a way to do this ?

All help appreciated,
ideas and comments are welcome!

/Tommy

[Hugh Jass]

This might help:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/printstyle.htm

[747SP]

Hi,

Thanks for posting, but that article is about printing the actual page.

I'm looking for a way to disable the "print scrn" button on the keyboard.
To prevent a visitor from capturing images from the website and pasting them into another application and then saving them as the image.

Is this possible at all ?????

All replies are most welcome!

/Tommy 747SP

[Hugh Jass]

I don't know if you are aware of this but:

Even if you manage to disable the "print scrn" button
you can't stop the images from being copied.

The images have to be downloaded onto the user's Hard Drive in order for the user to see them.

No-matter what functions you disable, the user can go to their Temporary Internet Folder & copy them from there.

'hope this helps

Hugh

[rishard]

My "Print Screen" button does not work with either IE5.5 or NS4.73, so I believe that you want to prevent users from being able to save your pictures to their hard drive etc. Although there is a copy of all viewed pictures in the cache, most users do not know about this and also the temporary names assigned to them is random. So to make it difficult for users to get your pictures, first disable the right-click button on your main page and all other pages on your site. That subject has been answered in this forum. Then from your main page the link to other pages should open a NEW page with no tool bars. I captured this snippet from htmlguru.com, I believe that it is dhtml

window.open( "http://www.ruleweb.com/dhtml/index.html", "kiosk", "fullscreen=yes");

Since there is no navagation bar you must now code all the links and navagation yourself. (Anybody got a .lib for this?)

Hope this helps

[rishard]

Sorry I forgot that you also need:
menubar=no,scrollbars=no

And I posted the wrong snippet
So you would have:

guruWindow = window.open('guru.html','GuruWindow','resizable=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,width=' + window_width + ',height=' + window_height + ',top=' + window_top + ',left=' + window_left + '');
guruWindow.focus();

The first line tells what guruWindow is,
The next makes it the current window. I guess that's obivous.

[747SP]

Hi,

to further explain what I mean, this page is created to show my purpose:
http://www.vikingslides.com/test

As i see it, the only way to get the picture is to do a 'Print Screen'.

Yes, the shot IS in the cache....but look at it....takes a lot of work from you...

So, what I need is to disable to 'Print Screen'....

Is that possible ???

All help, info and comments are most welcome...

/Tommy - 747SP