Disable User Input

[Alexander Muylaert]

Hi

How can I disable all user input? I would like to fully ignore all keyboard
and mousevents.

Is their a disabletaskwindows available or something likewise?

kind regards

Alexander

[Sriram Krishnan]

Well - you should be able to do a system-level hook - but doing this from
..NET may involve some nasty P-Invoking

--
Sriram Krishnan

http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sriram
"Alexander Muylaert" <Re********@pandora.be> wrote in message
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Hi

How can I disable all user input? I would like to fully ignore all
keyboard and mousevents.

Is their a disabletaskwindows available or something likewise?

kind regards

Alexander

[David McClarnon]

Sriram Krishnan wrote:

Well - you should be able to do a system-level hook - but doing this from
.NET may involve some nasty P-Invoking

Why would you want to do this ? Why do you want to lock up windows
completely apart from your application ?

Would you like to buy an application which locks up your windows desktop
whilst it did something ? Probably not.

Please explain further.

Darwen.

[Alexander Muylaert]

No man

I don't to disable Windows, I wan't to disable user input in my app for a
while.

I would lke to write a loop like

while MsgWaitForMultipleObjects(yaya, QS_ALLINPUT) {
while peek {
if (Msg != Keyboard) and (Msg != Mouse) then Dispatch.
}
}

I know the WaitHandle.WaitAny allows a message to fall through, but I'm not
sure if it blocks input messages.

I would like to be able to handle all timer, messages while waiting for an
event.

kind regards

[Sriram Krishnan]

No - not lock up Windows completely. With system level hooking you can
choose which messages get through and which dont - so the original poster
can disable user input like he wants to

--
Sriram Krishnan

http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sriram
"David McClarnon" <dm********@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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Sriram Krishnan wrote:

Well - you should be able to do a system-level hook - but doing this from
.NET may involve some nasty P-Invoking

Why would you want to do this ? Why do you want to lock up windows
completely apart from your application ?

Would you like to buy an application which locks up your windows desktop
whilst it did something ? Probably not.

Please explain further.

Darwen.