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Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python

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Date 2014-06-03 19:11 +1000
Subject Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Jaydeep Patil <patil.jay2009@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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?

Suggestion: Don't. If you really need this level of control of the
workstation, you are going about things wrongly. This is a recipe for
fragility and horrific usability problems. There are two simple
solutions:

1) Make it really obvious that you're controlling the computer, by
putting something big across the screen - a splash screen, of sorts -
which is set to Always On Top and gives a message. And then just trust
that the user won't do anything, because you've done everything
reasonable. No further control needed.

2) Automate your code by moving stuff around on the disk, *not* by
actually working through Excel. Twenty minutes of Excel automation
should probably become a proper application that reads in some data
and generates some graphs. And it'd probably be faster, too (even if
Excel's performance is stellar, which I very much doubt, it's always
slower to work through a GUI than to do the work directly). Figure out
what you're really trying to do, and do that directly.

Also, please follow Mark's advice.

ChrisA

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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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