There are many screen capture programs; Aqua Deskperience and Kleptomania to name but two very powerful ones. One partial solution is to test whether these apps are running and take appropiate action but even then it will not stop a determined user, especially if your VFP app itself is not protected and/or the tables where the text may have come from. Your problem is much bigger then stopping the text from being copied off the screen :)



>Hi all
>i want to protect the text that i have in a rich text box.i try to prevent user to copy text :
>

>If (keycode=17 And Shift=2) OR (keycode=16 And Shift=1)
>	Messagebox('no copy')
>	Nodefault
>Endif
>

>this work good.but yesterday i setup snag it and see that it can capture the text even if it has scrool bars.but it couldn't capture a pdf if it's protected.
>
>what can i do for this probleb?