Lock screen and disable user input

[kunoir]

Hi everyone,

First post

I am creating a guessing the animal game and have four choices. Once the correct/incorrect animal is chosen I would like to create a green/red square around the choice and lock the screen for 5 seconds.

I just used:

set the visible of graphic correctRectangle to true
lock screen
wait 5 seconds
unlock screen

But when this happens and if you click 5 times on another button during the waiting period it will proceed to process those clicks later.

Anyone know any fixes for this?

[Simon]

Hi kunoir,
Welcome to the forum

You can use Disable/Enable even on an image.
I'm guessing you code an "on mouseUp" to your images so you would add in the card script a routine to disable all the images for 5 seconds.

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disable image "myImage"

Simon

[bn]

Hi kunoir,

you could also use flushevents after your wait.

Wait is blocking and system event might pile up during the wait. That is what you see. Using flushevents you cancel all those piled up system messages.

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set the visible of graphic correctRectangle to true
lock screen
wait 5 seconds
get flushevents ("all") -- <------------
unlock screen

look up flushevents in the dictionary, it is nicely explained, instead of "all" you can flush specific events.

Kind regards
Bernd

[kunoir]

Awesome I will give both these solutions a try and get back to you. Thanks so much for the help.