Re: Disabling mouse while script runs
Re: Disabling mouse while script runs
- Subject: Re: Disabling mouse while script runs
- From: Bryan <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 19:23:23 -0400
- Organization: Apex Radiology
PreFab Player's Dictionary contains the command:
disable user input : disable mouse and/or keyboard input
... may have no effect on iMac
(or other models with USB keyboard & mouse)
disable user input
[from mouse/keyboard] -- which input to disable; defaults to both
(can explicitly specify both by concatenating with &)
[flashing icon boolean] -- set to false to disable the image that
flashes in the upper left corner ... WARNING: if mouse input
is disabled, users may think the computer is frozen
[command period to abort boolean] -- set to false to prevent
command-period from enabling user input and aborting the
script ... WARNING: if you don't allow command-period, it
may be quite difficult to abort a runaway script
it seems to me that KeyQuencer has some command which is similar,
but I haven't used KQ since going to Player and I can't recall it.
Bryan Kaufman
Doug Watkins wrote:
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I have a script to log off students from a server. The script quits
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all apps, closes open windows, empies the trash and unmounts mounted
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volumes. A problem arises (including in some cases the alias for the
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script disappearing from the desktop!) if a user clicks repeatedly on
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the alias for the script.
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Is there a way to disable the mouse button once the script starts
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running and then enabling it again at the end of the script?
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TIA
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Doug Watkins
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Bendigo
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Australia
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