Keyboard block
Nafiz Khalife
Please humour me. I am new here. I would like to know any option by
which I can disable all keyboard input during the presentation. In the
kiosk mode the escape key is still functional, intentionally I would
say. But explain that to my 'eccentric' management level seniors who are
quite jumpy about the possibilty of an accidental escape key press
during the unattended show. Any method falling short of unplugging the
keyboard from the base unit would be welcome. The 'keyboard stays put' -
higher orders.
All remarks accepted gratefully.
Nafiz
nafiz....@usa.net
Austin Myers
Nafiz,
I'm afraid that if you must leave the keyboard connected there isn't much
you can do. On second thought, I have a keyboard (Gateway) that is
programable. It can be programmed to disable any of the keys. Might be
worth a shot.
Austin Myers
PowerPoint MVP Team
Jim Ley
Nafiz Khalife <nafiz....@usa.net> wrote in message
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> Hello.
> Please humour me. I am new here. I would like to know any option by
> which I can disable all keyboard input during the presentation. In the
> kiosk mode the escape key is still functional, intentionally I would
> say. But explain that to my 'eccentric' management level seniors who are
> quite jumpy about the possibilty of an accidental escape key press
> during the unattended show. Any method falling short of unplugging the
> keyboard from the base unit would be welcome. The 'keyboard stays put' -
> higher orders.
Play it in an iframe in a kiosk mode window of IE.
Jim.
John O
Pull the Esc key off the keyboard, and super-glue
the mechanism. Maybe there is a way to make this
look real nice after the key is gone.
BTW, I did this with my Caps lock key...why on
earth is that stupid thing *right there*? They
shoulda put it up by Scroll Lock...
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John O
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PK Huntzinger
John O wrote:
>
> Don't forget that request for humor...
Thanks John, now I don't feel bad adding my "suggestions"
Have the keyboard there, but "accidentally" jiggle the connection loose.
Pull an old broken* keyboard out of storage.
*if you don't have a broken one available, just take an old one and
spill an open can of coke on it.
> BTW, I did this with my Caps lock key...why on
> earth is that stupid thing *right there*? They
> shoulda put it up by Scroll Lock...
I agree! caps lock should be banned...
Kathy
John O
Now we're on a roll...
And I'm thinking...these bosses want the keyboard
totally disabled, but connected. Makes sense, I
guess. (They aren't pointy-haired, are they???)
<g>
Break all the pins off from inside the connector.
Open the keyboard and cut the cable entirely.
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John O
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JLRubin
I hate to intervene with a different kind of answer, but I wonder whether it
would be possible to assign a code page for the keyboard that does not have
any keys assigned?
One could always change this back to the standard page using the mouse,
which of course could be unplugged after starting the presention.
Do not know enough about code pages to know how they actually work, but in
WinNT, there is a command to assign them.
Jeff Rubin
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Shyam Pillai
Nafiz,
> Any method falling short of unplugging the
> keyboard from the base unit would be welcome
If you are using a win9x machine (not tested on NT/2000)...
Launch PowerPoint. Open the presentation to show. Set it to Kiosk mode.Don't
start the show just yet.
Click on start|run. In the Run window type: "Rundll32 keyboard,disable"
(don't include the quotes)
Press Ok & it's good-bye keyboard access till the next reboot.
With keyboard no longer functioning, using the mouse to start the show in
the PowerPoint window.
Once in Kiosk mode even mouse clicks are ignored.
Now only key combination functional :- Ctrl+Alt+Del, use it when you need to
shutdown/reboot the machine.
Have fun.
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Shyam Pillai
In case you are using PPT2000, inclined to programming and have fair amount
Window API knowledge, you can create a message handler to filter out the ESC
key.
This approach is also handy if you want a workaround the
restart-show-after-5-min-inactivity feature while using the KIOSK mode.
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"Nafiz Khalife" <nafiz....@usa.net> wrote in message
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> Hello.
> Please humour me. I am new here. I would like to know any option by
> which I can disable all keyboard input during the presentation. In the
> kiosk mode the escape key is still functional, intentionally I would
> say. But explain that to my 'eccentric' management level seniors who are
> quite jumpy about the possibilty of an accidental escape key press
> during the unattended show. Any method falling short of unplugging the
echos
Echo
Shyam Pillai wrote:
> Nafiz,
>
> > Any method falling short of unplugging the
> > keyboard from the base unit would be welcome
>
> If you are using a win9x machine (not tested on NT/2000)...
>
> Launch PowerPoint. Open the presentation to show. Set it to Kiosk mode.Don't
> start the show just yet.
> Click on start|run. In the Run window type: "Rundll32 keyboard,disable"
> (don't include the quotes)
> Press Ok & it's good-bye keyboard access till the next reboot.
> With keyboard no longer functioning, using the mouse to start the show in
> the PowerPoint window.
> Once in Kiosk mode even mouse clicks are ignored.
> Now only key combination functional :- Ctrl+Alt+Del, use it when you need to
> shutdown/reboot the machine.
>
> Have fun.