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Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2014-06-03 00:53 -0700
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Subject Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python
From Jaydeep Patil <patil.jay2009@gmail.com>

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On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 12:39:38 UTC+5:30, Ian  wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Jaydeep Patil <patil.jay2009@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Lan,
> 
> >
> 
> > Currently I am doing some automation in python excel. It read the data & plots number of graphs. It took more than 20 minutes. So while running my python program if user clicks on excel, error came.
> 
> >
> 
> > So just i want to lock GUI not workstation.
> 
> >
> 
> > I hope you understand this.
> 
> >
> 
> > Let me know if you have any idea about it.
> 
> 
> 
> You can set the Application.Interactive property on Excel to block user input:
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff841248(v=office.15).aspx
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> 
> 
> Example:
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> 
> 
> excel_app = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
> 
> excel_app.Interactive = False
> 
> try:
> 
>     # Do some automation...
> 
> finally:
> 
>     excel_app.Interactive = True


Hi Lan,

Thanks for sharing valuable info.

I have another query.

We can now block user inputs. But in my automation three is copy & paste work going on continuously in Excel before plotting the graphs.

During copy paste of excel data, if user by mistake doing some copy & paste operation outside excel(for e.g. doing copy paste in outlook mails, firefox browser etc), it may be cause for the another error.

How i can control this?


Thanks & Regards
Jaydeep Patil

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Lock Windows Screen GUI using python Jaydeep Patil <patil.jay2009@gmail.com> - 2014-06-02 21:28 -0700
  Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-06-02 23:09 -0600
    Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python Jaydeep Patil <patil.jay2009@gmail.com> - 2014-06-02 23:40 -0700
      Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 01:09 -0600
        Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python Jaydeep Patil <patil.jay2009@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 00:53 -0700
          Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-06-03 09:05 +0100
          Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 19:11 +1000
          Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 09:27 -0600
            Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python Jaydeep Patil <patil.jay2009@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 20:55 -0700
              Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 22:58 -0600
                Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python Jaydeep Patil <patil.jay2009@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 22:44 -0700
                Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-06-04 00:02 -0600
              Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-04 21:21 +1000
              Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-06-04 22:04 -0400

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