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We got a call the other day from a prospective client telling us that another interactive agency in town was claiming that they made the Crawford Group web site which we actually created a few years back.
The best solution to this problem would have been to put a signature at the bottom of the site that says ‘Website designed by Kinoli‘. This is not always possible for us because we work with a lot of creative agencies who prefer that we don’t put a link on their site back to ours. In return, many of these agencies outsource all of their web work to us.
Hidden Flash Alert Box
The web site we created for the Crawford Group is Flash based, which lends it self well to hidden easter eggs. We told this prospective client to go to the web site and click on the flash part of the site and type in the word ‘kinoli’. An alert box pops up saying, ‘Another fine site brought to you by Kinoli. www.kinoli.com’. This proved that we were the creators.
To create an alert box in Flash, put the following action script on the first frame of your file. Change the word ‘kinoli’ in the easterEgg function to the key combination you want to trigger the alert box, and change ‘Another fine site brought to you by Kinoli. www.kinoli.com’ to the text that you want to appear in the alert box.
/**
* sets an easter egg listener
* @txt - text required to be typed by user
* @alertTxt - text to be displayed in alert window
*/
function alert(txt:String):Void {
getURL("javascript:alert(\""+txt+"\");");
}
function easterEgg(txt:String, alertTxt:String):Void {
var egg:String = ”;
var myObj:Object = new Object();
myObj.onKeyDown = function() {
var x:String = String.fromCharCode(Key.getAscii());
egg += x;
if (egg.length == txt.length) {
if (egg == txt) {
alert(alertTxt);
trace(alertTxt);
egg = "";
} else {
egg = "";
}
}
};
Key.addListener(myObj);
}
easterEgg(’kinoli’, ‘Another fine site brought to you by Kinoli. www.kinoli.com’);
This action script was created by my brother Jesse Knowles who is an amazing Flash developer.
The best way to prevent people from claiming your work as their own is to put a very obvious link back to your site on the web sites you create. When that is not possible and the site is in Flash you can use an alert box to prove that you created it. There are also many other good uses for alert boxes in Flash, like to notify users when they make a mistake filling out a form.
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