Blocking screenshots?

[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 screen-grab.

And the more difficult part - block screen recording software so users can't record what they are doing and just take a screen-grab from the recording.

But ultimately I think Richard and Mark are right, if someone really wants to copy something, they'll find a way.

Paul

P.S. You can make a screen-grab from revBrowser.

On 2012-12-31, at 1:46 PM, Richmond wrote:

> 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 "rather fun" if I could make it reasonably difficult and more
> time-consuming for my Demo users.
> 
>> 
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