Disable Mouse

[Devin Asay]

On Feb 14, 2007, at 12:42 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Jeff Honken wrote:
>> Sarah,
>>   Thanks you for responding.  I'm still confused on the issue.   
>> What I
>> have is several fields that are for data entry.  I don't want to give
>> the user the ability of using the mouse in any of the input  
>> fields.  I
>> could put empty mouseDown handlers in the fields but that will still
>> allow the user the ability to use the mouse to get into the field and
>> the type within the field.  I want to make sure their only ability to
>> get into the field are by tabbing or using the return key from the
>> previous field.  Jeff
>
> Sarah's method will still work. Just put a transparent button over  
> the fields, making sure it is on the top layer. Set its autohilite  
> and showborder to false. Put an empty "mouseup" handler in its  
> script to block any mouse clicks.

Or, just disable the button. The disabled state of a transparent,  
borderless button has no visible effect on the objects underneath it.
>
> Your regular scripts can still select the fields underneath and  
> auto-tabbing will work normally. Anything the user types will go  
> into the currently selected field. The only thing the user can't do  
> is click to get access to the fields because the overlying button  
> will block it.

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University