Lock Windows Screen GUI using python

[Jaydeep Patil]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi Lan,
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> > 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.
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> >
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> > So just i want to lock GUI not workstation.
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> > I hope you understand this.
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> > Let me know if you have any idea about it.
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> You can set the Application.Interactive property on Excel to block user input:
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> 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")
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> excel_app.Interactive = False
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> try:
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>     # Do some automation...
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> finally:
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>     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