>Is there a way to turn off input (keyboard and mouse) briefly while a process completes, then, turn them back on?


hi John,

I briefly tested this. This is for the screen

Any window you get the hwnd of, you can disable/enable keyboard and mouse

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function do_it()

	declare integer EnableWindow in win32api integer, integer
        declare Sleep in Win32api integer

	** disable keyboard
	=EnableWindow(_screen.hwnd, 0)
	?? 'keyboard disabled'

	=sleep(5000)
	
	=EnableWindow(_screen.hwnd, 1)
	?? 'keyboard enabled'

endfunc
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see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/userinput/keyboardinput/keyboardinputreference/keyboardinputfunctions/enablewindow.asp