My nephew is sometimes coming over and I would accept any bet that he is heading straight towards the computer pressing buttons and moving the mouse around. This can cause some irritation and probably damage and I finally found a way to stop him. This is actually helpful in numerous ways, have you ever tried watching a movie with a kid on the computer ? If the kid is young he surely hammers away on the keys and moves the mouse lots of time which is a huge distraction obviously.
Then I discovered Toddler Trap by Skrommel a member of Donation Coder. Toddler Trap is like a filter that takes all the pressed keys and mouse actions and suppresses them. Pressing a key or a mouse button will have no effect on the computer, there is no way to close windows or open right-click menus. Some special keys are still working but the Windows key for instance is blocked as well.
So, whenever he comes the first thing I do is start up Toddler Trap and let him have his fun. I don’t have to worry anymore and he is happy. The Toddler Trap window centers on the screen but it is possible to move it away from there. The window will always be in the foreground to catch all the input and this proves to be a problem when watching movies.
You can move the Toddler Trap window with the mouse normally but it will not be released until you press Return.
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I think I saw similar software sometime ago. It was for people with cat’s (who like to walk across or lay on the keyboard). :)
yes,very usefull :-D
Awesome!! This is indeed what I need!! Thanks!!
I usually just bring out one of my old laptops and let the little monsters at it. And when it freezes, I tell them they’d broken it. They’re usually very well behaved thereafter as they thought they did something bad (broke a laptop) and wants to be as nice as possible to avoid “punishment” :)
Kaspersky reckons there’s a trojan inside this?
There is no trojan inside, check the autohotkey website and read up on false positives.
http://www.autohotkey.com/
Dante that’s a nice idea but I do not have an old notebook lying around. I have some broken video game controllers that my nephew likes to play with when someone else is playing a game. Does not seem to bother him that his controller is not connected to the console.
We just have to be smarter than they are ;)
This is what I need for my wife :) I could have some fum with this. hehehehehe
Cool! I need to block the power and Sleep buttons on my keyboard by the program. I wrote kbd hook to catch key events ( up /down ) for those keys but nevertheless I do not pass them further in the chain it is still possible to switch off (or lock ) the system :(
How it works in your case? Thanks!
Great tool, keeps my nephew and niece from screwing up my system haha.
Thanks muchly!
I always wondered why keyboards didn’t come with little on/off toggles, but this will do fine. I use this now for when I’m not working at the computer or watching a movie and the cat tends to step on the keyboard.
This does the trick! Thank you much.