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I want to disable print screen and right click or print the webpage

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I want to disable print screen and right click or print the webpage

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2003-09-12 at 01:18:35ID20736706
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ColdFusion Application Server

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Answers

 

by: MausePosted on 2003-09-12 at 03:01:35ID: 9344558

I don't think thats possible

what you can do is make a CSS (media print) like this:

<style media="print">
      body {
            display : none;
      }
</style>

This will hide everything on the page when the page is print from file or right-click print

This will not work on print screen!!!

Mause

 

by: cheekycjPosted on 2003-09-12 at 04:51:25ID: 9345101

disabling right click:
<script language=JavaScript>
<!--

//Disable right mouse click Script
//By Maximus (maximus@nsimail.com) w/ mods by DynamicDrive
//For full source code, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com

var message="Function Disabled!";

///////////////////////////////////
function clickIE4(){
if (event.button==2){
alert(message);
return false;
}
}

function clickNS4(e){
if (document.layers||document.getElementById&&!document.all){
if (e.which==2||e.which==3){
alert(message);
return false;
}
}
}

if (document.layers){
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
document.onmousedown=clickNS4;
}
else if (document.all&&!document.getElementById){
document.onmousedown=clickIE4;
}

document.oncontextmenu=new Function("alert(message);return false")

// -->
</script>

CJ

 

by: mayachoyPosted on 2003-09-12 at 04:56:39ID: 9345119

hI CJ I already got the right click got.

Mause
thank's for the code. But i found this <body onload=setInterval("window.clipboardData.setData('text','')",20)> to diable the print screen but sometime there is a error occur like "OpenClipboard failed" or the there is not enough memory if the page is too many picture. but i need to display a lot of pictures on the website.

 

by: MausePosted on 2003-09-12 at 05:18:05ID: 9345221

Try this

<body onload=setInterval("window.clipboardData.clearData()",20)>

Mause

 

by: mayachoyPosted on 2003-09-12 at 05:26:56ID: 9345270

same error occur

OpenClipboard Failed

Do u know anyway to clear the clipboard data. Because what is know is when we copy anything the data or image will appear on clipboard.

is there anyway to enable the use to print screen but will only paste nothing?

 

by: mayachoyPosted on 2003-09-12 at 06:03:45ID: 9345513

or is there any way to clean the clipbook in script

 

by: MausePosted on 2003-09-12 at 07:04:14ID: 9345918

the code I post clears the data of the clipboard
I don't know why it it you get teh error: OpenClipboard Failed

to find more about the clipboarddata see

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/clipboarddata.asp

or maybe you should try the javascript section

Mause

 

by: substandPosted on 2003-09-12 at 10:31:38ID: 9347543

if you are so concerned about people printing, why are you publishing this stuff on the web?  Mause's first solution will work fine for most users, but in the end you cannot stop people from printing your page, so why go to great lengths to stop it?  do some reasonable amount to catch most people, but there comes a time when you are spending too much time on something that won't work.

remember, they are coming to your site and downloading the page to thier computer, where they are then viewing it.  so if someone really wants to print your page, they can just go to thier cache, open the file in notepad, take out the part that doesn't allow them to print, open the page in thier browser (or word or something else) and then print it.

 

by: mayachoyPosted on 2003-09-12 at 19:16:39ID: 9350385

substand,

I understand it's difficult to protect the webpage.

Because my page contain a lot of image that my company won't allow somebody to steal it.

 

by: MausePosted on 2003-09-15 at 00:32:53ID: 9360899

mayachoy,

I also think you can't stop people from stealing your images.
There will always be stuff like "snagit" (http://www.techsmith.com) to steal your pictures.
I gues the only thing you can do is to make it difficuklt to steal your images
by using css and disable right mouse click. This will be fine for most users.

If you don't want this don't put those images on the web !

Greetings,
Mause

 

by: substandPosted on 2003-09-15 at 22:49:47ID: 9368348

mayachoy- its not difficult, it is completely impossible.  you can just make it hard for the general public.  what most sites do for images (even sites that are based on sales of images) are 2 things:

1) make sure the images you show for free are poor quality
2) put a watermark on them

both are easy, though you will likely need to purchase software to auto-add the watermark in cf.

There's nothing wrong with adding features to make it hard for the general public to save your pictures.  But no matter what happens, all pics are saved.  So you will need to do something like 1) or 2) to really be effective.

 

by: nathansPosted on 2003-09-16 at 05:27:46ID: 9369990

I can take a print screen even if you disable it... as there are plenty of programs out there that allow me to over ride and take a picture... so if your trying to protect the pictures show a small verision of the picture with a watermark.

I agree with SubStand.

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