Locking the User In

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What you are talking about is a Modal Application and the industry pretty
mush left those behind when we left DOS. Object Oriented Event Driven
software (such as Access) is very non modal and IMHO much easier for the user
to learn. What is happening in your application that make you want to force
the user into a Modal Application?
 
Does anyone have any suggestions on locking the user into an application
so that they only go where you want them to (more or less, they do have
some choices!) Is there a way to map it out on paper? Whats the
easiest way to do this without getting lost or confused as I'm doing
this. Any suggestions welcomed!
Thanks
DS
 
Are you talking about putting the maching into a "Kiosk Mode" where the user
can ONLY use your access application? This will require a fair amout of
energy on your part. You will need to use low level API's to block all of
the windows stuff like Ctrl-Alt-Delete, Ctrl-Esc, the Windows key, etc.

Ron W
 
RDub said:
Are you talking about putting the maching into a "Kiosk Mode" where the user
can ONLY use your access application? This will require a fair amout of
energy on your part. You will need to use low level API's to block all of
the windows stuff like Ctrl-Alt-Delete, Ctrl-Esc, the Windows key, etc.

Ron W
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You've got it!
So....where can I find these low level API's !!!!!
Thanks
DS
 
Google is your Friend!! Search for VB6 stuff, as writing code for that
platform is more or less the same as Access. :-)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=vb+disable+ctrl+alt+esc

Lots of good looking prospects there. I recommend that you have a look at
and then try some of this stuff, then come back to us with specific
questions for your implementation.

Hope you have at least a few days planned for this project. I suspect it
will not be easy to lock down a machine tight from Access. There are a lot
of key stroke combinations that you will have to account for. In fact, I
would be VERY surprised if in the end you didn't have to sit down and write
a DLL or two in C++. I do not think it is even possible to hook (and
therefore disable) the Control-Alt-Delete key combination from any
application.

Ron W
 
RDub said:
Google is your Friend!! Search for VB6 stuff, as writing code for that
platform is more or less the same as Access. :-)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=vb+disable+ctrl+alt+esc

Lots of good looking prospects there. I recommend that you have a look at
and then try some of this stuff, then come back to us with specific
questions for your implementation.

Hope you have at least a few days planned for this project. I suspect it
will not be easy to lock down a machine tight from Access. There are a lot
of key stroke combinations that you will have to account for. In fact, I
would be VERY surprised if in the end you didn't have to sit down and write
a DLL or two in C++. I do not think it is even possible to hook (and
therefore disable) the Control-Alt-Delete key combination from any
application.

Ron W
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Good Stuff!
My works cut out for me!
Thanks
DS
 
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