Toddler Trap

Posted by Martin in Operating Systems, Tools, Windows, software  Tags: , , , ,

16

Apr



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.

toddler trap

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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Jojo says:

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). :)

tireless says:

yes,very usefull :-D

hammy says:

Awesome!! This is indeed what I need!! Thanks!!

Dante says:

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” :)

Wayfarer says:

Kaspersky reckons there’s a trojan inside this?

Martin says:

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 ;)

robert says:

This is what I need for my wife :) I could have some fum with this. hehehehehe

valyo says:

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!

Cheesy says:

Great tool, keeps my nephew and niece from screwing up my system haha.

Thanks muchly!

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