Inhibit mouse Events possible?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Bill,

One way to do this:

local lBusy,lSecs
on mouseUp
    if lBusy is true then
       beep
       exit mouseUp
    else if lBusy is not true then
       put true into lBusy
       put the seconds into lSecs
       repeat forever with messages
          // some long task here
          if the seconds - lSecs > 5 then exit repeat
          wait 0 millisecs with messages
       end repeat
       put false into lBusy
    end if
end mouseUp

This script doesn't allow running the script again, as long as it hasn't 
finished. If you have multiple controls that should not be used while 
the script runs, you can disable the other controls or use a global 
variable and check the global variable in the other scripts.

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Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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On 7/3/2014 19:32, William Prothero wrote:
> Folks:
>
> Is it possible to inhibit mouse events? Some of the operations that are initiated by a mouse click require a bit of time and I don’t want the user to be able to click around until each operation is finished. One approach would be to put a transparent rectangle over the stack and not pass events, but I wonder if there is a more direct way.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
> William A. Prothero, Ph.D.
> University of California, Santa Barbara Dept. of Earth Sciences (Emeritus)
> Santa Barbara, CA. 93105
> http://es.earthednet.org/
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