Lock screen and disable user input

[Joe Kot]

I'm developing a children's program. Small children tend to repeatedly tap a button/field. This unfortunately triggers multiple events and so the program does not stop at the appropriate time. The following code works for windows operating systems. But flushevents does not work for android applications. Disable does not work either. Events are still stored. Any ideas would be appreciated.
lock screen
wait 5 seconds
get flushevents ("all") -- <------------
unlock screen

[Klaus]

Hi Joe,

in situatuons like these I usually show a filled(!) graphic on top of the card
with its INK set to "noop" and give it a dummy script:

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on mouseup
  ## nada :-)
en mouseup

That will "catch" all TAPping and can be hidden again when TAPping is allowed again.

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...
show grc "eventcatcher"
lock screen
wait 5 seconds
hide grc "eventcatcher"
unlock screen
...

You get the picture.


Best

Klaus

[Dixie]

have a look at 'mobileClearTouches' in the dictionary...

[Klaus]

Ah, "mobileClearTouches", cool, thanks for the hint

[Joe Kot]

Added the following to my program and its works great. I will also try the filled(!) graphic on top of the card approach.
Thank you both for the help. - Joe
if the environment is "mobile" then mobileClearTouches
else
get flushevents ("all") -- <------------
end if