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From: hans@pine.circa.ufl.edu (Hans van Oostrom)
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Subject: Re: How do I disable Mouse Input?
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Date: 20 Jun 91 16:44:55 GMT
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In article <1405@ssp18.idca.tds.philips.nl>, hansh@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Hans Helmonds) writes...
>Who knows a way to temporarily disable every mouse input to the system
>and leave keyboard input and buffering enabled?
>EnableHardwareInput() works only if you want to disable both mouse and
>keyboard input. 
> 

The program that wants to disable the mouse could do a SetCapture.  
This will send all th mouse messages to the specified window.  There 
you can do whatever you want with it (like ignore it).  ReleaseCapture 
sets everything back.  The window that sets the capture doesn't 
has to be visible.


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