Possible to disable clicking even from outside the window?

[Wra1thus]

I'm trying to get something going and one problem that I can't seem to solve.
I want to be able to hold down a key and prevent all clicking of the mouse.
It works when trying to click within the frame but outside the mouse still works.
Tried click blocker, key object, controlx and kernel objects.

I am also open to work around ideas...basically this program mirrors the keyboard/mouse from this comp onto the other computer
through the network but I want to be able to hold down "alt" to ~freeze~ this mouse and to
continue operating the 2nd computers mouse.

Thanks!

[Shawn]

I don't think there's any way to do this with MMF2. Once the window loses focus MMF2 won't register any input.

From what I understand, you want to have the mouse cursor mirror the first computer's mouse movement, but you don't want clicks registering outside the window on the first computer so you don't start opening things, etc? You could make it so that if you hold alt it switches the window to fullscreen (don't change resolution). It wouldn't freeze the mouse, but since the window is fullscreen, you wouldn't be clicking on anything else. If you simply maximized the window without fullscreen, there's still the possibility of clicking on the taskbar or the window buttons on the top right.

[Wra1thus]

I don't think there's any way to do this with MMF2. Once the window loses focus MMF2 won't register any input.

From what I understand, you want to have the mouse cursor mirror the first computer's mouse movement, but you don't want clicks registering outside the window on the first computer so you don't start opening things, etc? You could make it so that if you hold alt it switches the window to fullscreen (don't change resolution). It wouldn't freeze the mouse, but since the window is fullscreen, you wouldn't be clicking on anything else. If you simply maximized the window without fullscreen, there's still the possibility of clicking on the taskbar or the window buttons on the top right.

I appreciate the reply. MMF does take input when outside of the window when using an extension (such as key object) which I was hoping click blocker would do. I hadn't realized your
idea about the switch to fullscreen. I wanted to keep the program open in fullscreen but your idea works when in windowed fullscreen+bringing the mmf window to the front of the program, so that works for now. Thanks!

[Shawn]

Ah okay, I wasn't aware there was an extension that actually did that. Nice to know. Glad to hear you have a workaround now! Not an ideal solution I'm sure, but solves the issue you had been having. Reason why I suggested not to change resolution is that it's faster switching from windowed fullscreen back to windowed, and some users might not like the change resolution aspect.

[Danny]

You can quite easily detect clicks and keystrokes outside of the application, however the keyword there is 'detect'.

You can quite easily 'block clicks' inside your own application, but to start blocking clicks outside of the application you're gonna have to start messing with the Kernel. What Shawn said was a viable solution, I also have another solution for you.

Create an application that always runs maximized, use a sub-application that stretches with it and pastes the desktop as the background (Grab Desktop at Start). Then use your application with other sub-applications. This will give the impression that the desktop is still underneath just not 'clickable' as it will just be an image. You can also show/hide the taskbar using some of the kernel extensions in MMF2 Dev such as Sphax's objects.