It is possible to unable the printscren key

[Ben]

War Story first, then idea.

When I was studying VMS Internals and Data Structures I made some enemies in the class by asking too many questions. So eventually the course covered how to redirect output. So the guys in the back that did not like my questions started doing a "copy Foaming_Beer_Mug.txt Bens_terminal" so I would have a foaming beer mug appear on my scrfeen in the middle of crash dump analysis, right up to lunch time. While they where gone I added a line to the system that assigened my terminal port to "tt" the generic name for a user port. So after lunch I started hearing mubling in the back row but saw no more beer mugs.

Now for the idea:

The "print Screen" copies the screen shot to the system clip board. You could have some background code repeatedly writing an image to the clip-board to over-write anything they tried to put there manually. What would be very cool is to have the image that your code write to the clip board be a Foaming Beer mug with text saying "It not nice to steal".

Ben

[Ray.R]

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smercurio_fc wrote:

The tab control is a good idea. If you act on the "Value change" event then you would actually need to make sure the stuff in that tab is hidden until you've actually verified the password. Otherwise you can click the tab, the password dialog comes up, and then someone can just move the dialog out of the way. You could act on the "Mouse Down?" event for the tab control. This allows you to cancel the action before it happens, but then you'd have to figure out if the click occurred on the tabs, and which tab was actually clicked.

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I was thinking to hide the page numbers - index (Tab1, Tab2, etc) on the Tab, so that you could not select the Tab by clicking on it.  You'd have to click on something like "Data Display", which would prompt for a password before switching to that Tab.  The Tab could be a small part of the UI.  That way, you'd have a blank Tab and another which displays the data.  

[smercurio_fc]

That works too. Lots of ways to skin the cat.

[Ray.R]

yep...  Poor cat's gonna get cold with all that missing skin..

How are the proposed solutions working out for you?