Hi,

I'm new here and up until now I have been building websites strictly using notepad. I am exited to have found CC. I am currently creating a website for an artist. I am using flash photo gallery for her images. Is there someway that I can disable the print option for those images. There is ofcourse a concern with copyright. I am an artist myself and would like to do this for my own site as well. On my site the pictures are simply arranged in tables.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Wendy Feenstra

Hi

There is no way to disable the print button. That is controlled by the computer and browser.

Scott Swedorski
VP of Software Development

As Scott told you already, you can't disable the print command but you can disable the right mouse click, so people will not be able to download your images. The other way would be to use a service like DigiMark to digitally watermark and protect your images, but you would have to catch the perpetrator first and that could prove to be impossible.
Look in the DHTML menu of the HTML editor for the right click disable feature.

Thanks for your responses. That's actually what I meant. Disabling the right mouse click.

Wendy

If using VSD make a HTML box and paste the following into the Body (It helps a little):

<script language="JavaScript">
var msg="This page is copy protected.";

function disableIE()
{
if (document.all)
{
alert(msg);return false;
}
}

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

if (document.layers)
{
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);document.onmousedown=disableNS;
}

else
{
document.onmouseup=disableNS;document.oncontextmenu=disableIE;
}

document.oncontextmenu=new Function("alert(msg);return false")
</script>

Diabling the right mouse click works for novices but if someone really wants a picture it's simple to take. People use the Print Screen command and then copy everything into their photo editing software. Then they just crop out what they don't want. Or they have a program that will capture screen content. There's a ton of those types of programs available. The only way to really ensure your work isn't stolen is to watermark it.

Even if you Water Mark them, you still have to find the perpetrator if indeed there is one. The best suggestion I have is, don't post anything on the internet unless you want it to be stolen.

You're absolutely right Alfred. Watermarks only add a layer of security, just like "No Right Click" scripts do but someone good with photoshop or another graphics program can work wonders with watermarked photos. Kind of like locks on your doors. They only keep the honest people out. The only way to prevent work from being stolen is to not have it available to be stolen in the first place!

The disable of the right-click works on the photo viewer, but I recently discovered that when I left-click the large photo in the Photo Gallery (v5.0), another window pops open with a copy of the same photo. And on "that" browser window right click works fine. This makes stealing the photo a 3-step process instead of a 2 step process. So my question is, how can I prevent the second browser window from opening. A "hand" appears over the photo letting people know that they can probably left-click on it.

You don't even have to right-click ... how complicated ... I usually just drag-and-drop the images from the webpage to the desktop.