Heres the thing.

I am making game for babys with Hollywood.

However, there is no Disableautokeys command in Hollywood (although it might be possible to do some otheer way anyway).

Problem is that games idea is that baby can keep pushing keyboard randomly. That means, baby will also push things like Windows keys - and that is a problem. For if Baby hits Windows key, hell be thrown to windows from game.

So therefore i would need solution to disable all Amigas, Macs and PCs autokeys.

I suppose one solution would be to first run a program that disables all the autokeys and after that would start Hollywood program, and when exiting Hollywood program, it would again enable autokeys as well.

Therefore i am asking if anyone knows if such programs already exist, or if someone can make me such programs and how much would you take from making those or even one of those programs?

For basically i would need one program for each OS: MacOS, Windows, AmigaOS4, MorphOS and AROS (supposing they all even have autokeys).

And i would also need someone to show me how to do it so that it first starts that program and then on exit enable them again.

I can do that on Amiga, thas simple, just make startup-sequence file of:

Disableautokeys.exe
Hollywoodprogram.exe
Enableautokeys.exe

But is this doable same way in PC and Mac too?

@Bugala

Might be doable on MAC also. But as for windows, please, the newest release windows AFAIK is harder to get into the private OS key area section.

Mmmmm, Suppose if it aint windows seven, there could be something in system 32 that may be able to be of use to you in working out the configurable settings needed to make that game work on windows. But dont ask me what or which config to look for, I dont use windows at home, and we have an IT department at work that deals with the shet.

Maybe someone like Opi could help you, he seems to have aquired a lot of knowledge on particular OS'es, their positives and negatives, including the two main ones you mentioned, MAc and Windows.

Sorry I havent been any real help, but you did spark an interesting question, cant wait to see some answers on this one.

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@Bugala

http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/disable_windows_key/

since this hack modifies the registry i would not reccomend creating a script to modify it then reverse it.

Last edited by jkirk on 20-Jun-2010 at 06:38 AM.

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@jkirk

Somewhat safer is hooking into the keyboard input stream, kinda like a commodity would in amigaos. This Q&A in MSDN magazine explains how to do it (it's about halfway down the page, look for "DisableTaskKeys")

@CodeSmith

Might it not be easier to have a modified keyboard that had the relevant keys disconnected?

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@tonyw

he just wants them temporarily disabled not permanantly.

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@jkirk

For the baby to play with? The keyboard is going to be unusable after a while, anyway. Start with a cheap $5 keyboard, cut the tracks to the "root" keys and let him/her fly.

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Its supposed to be downloadable. Cant download physical keyboard.

But otherwise that keyboard idea came to my mind too. Maybe for the next installment if first one is succesful.

For came to my mind to have bright keyboard with lights and all to make it even more exciting.


But one thing that interests me, Does new Amigas (MorpOS, AROS, AmigaOS4) have autokeys? and what aboutg MacOS? Or is Windows only one with autokeys?

For im not worried of key combinations, as long as they are hard to hit even by random like A+A+del and Ctr+Alt+Del are.

@CodeSmith

Forgot to say thanks from your reply. It looks a lot like this one might be the answer im looking for.

@Bugala

Except for the reboot (Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga) and swap screens (Amiga-M/N) combos there shouldn't be any key on the Amiga (either Classic or PPC) which triggers some unexpected event.

I don't know how much control Hollywood gives you, but if it lets you decide what it should do when pressing "Esc" rather than systematically exit, there should be no need for a program to disable any key on the Amiga.

However you might want to inform the user that he should disable any commodity he installed which adds single-key actions, as can be done with FKey, MMKeyboard, and AllKeys for example.

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One more thing.

What about all those laptop specific keys? I suppose they are not actually windows keys but something else, right? is it possible to insteqad of disabling some specific keys, like windows keys, to instead disable all but x-keys.

That way i could for example disable all but a-z, 0-9 etc. common keys.

And then those laptop specific keys wouldnt be problem either.

And hat about MAC, does it ahvee any autokeys, or are autokeys only windows specific problem?