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Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python

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From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date 2014-06-03 01:09 -0600
Subject Re: Lock Windows Screen GUI using python
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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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

Example:

excel_app = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
excel_app.Interactive = False
try:
    # Do some automation...
finally:
    excel_app.Interactive = True

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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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