LiveCode external/plugin question

[Henk van der Velden]

Hi William,

last year I've done a museum project where I had to put pc's into kiosk mode. Unfortunately the rawKeyDown approach didn't work since you can't capture key combinations like CTRL-ALT-DEL etc. The only way I could find was changing the registry. 
On the other hand, I seem to remember that Director offers an option to run applications in true kiosk mode. So what you are looking for should be possible in some way or another.

Kind regards,
Henk

On Nov 4, 2010, at 18:00 , use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

>> I was looking for true kiosk mode so Marks advise using IE isn't the
>> right thing for me.
>> I need all keys to be blocked. Editing the registry seems the only way
>> but it needs the computer to reboot.
>> 
>> I need my app on startup to block these keys without rebooting the machine.
>> After closing the app  the keys need to function again.
>> Is this even possible?
> 
> Have you tried putting in a rawKeyDown handler that doesn't pass the 
> message? That should block all keystrokes, and won't affect any other 
> apps. You probably will need to add a way to enable the keyboard again 
> while you are working on the stack, otherwise you won't be able to type 
> anything. Something like this:
> 
> on rawKeyDown pKey
>   if the environment is "development" then pass rawKeyDown
> end rawKeyDown