Seeking opinions for mouse-disabling options

[CarlyS]

I have read a great deal about mouse scrolling and not scrolling and found some fancy solutions. I am not good at reading code and what I want may be simpler than what these solutions do. I would like to disable the mousewheel entirely while my database is in use. I don't want to offer the option to turn it back on. I have in place a dll file but it worries me to use this, as it is an external file. Is there a code that will simply disable the wheel for the entire time a database is opened? (Also do I have to call it for each database object?)

Does anyone know the most SIMPLE way to do this? Thanks for any opinions.

 

[RV]

You'll definitely will need code on this one.
Just use one of the options posted in one of the many threads here dealing with exactly the same issue.

RV

 

[spacepro]

Try this :

http://www.lebans.com/mousewheelonoff.htm

You could set the code on your startup form.

Andy

 

[CarlyS]

Andy, thank you for your reply--I appreciate your help. That is a good idea to use on the startup form, but doesn't that require the dll file too? I can use that, but it seems a little harder to secure since it is not part of the database. What do you think?

 

[spacepro]

Carly,

Unfortunately the DLL needs to be on the pc that operates the program. The DLL can be placed into the Windows/System folder or the same folder as the mdb file.
I suppose there could be away to set access to check if the DLL is there and if not copy it say from a network or other means or add error coding so if the DLL is not present a message or warning is displayed to the user for the db administrator to be notified.

Nothing needs to be done to the DLL it just needs to be present on the local pc. Obiovusly I don't know your setup for your project.

Hope this helps

Andy

 

[CarlyS]

I guess I was just worried about someone deleting or renaming the dll file. I was hoping someone might know a code that could be in the database that would disable the mouse. There are some nice solutions I've read about in the forum, but they seem to give options to turn the mouse wheel back on and do more than just disable the mouse wheel. If anyone knows of a simple, "no scrolling ever" code, that is what I'm looking for I guess. Thanks for offering your expertise.
Carly

 

[spacepro]

Carly,

No Problem. I had a quick look on MS KB and microsoft state that Access isn't capable of disabling the mousewheel.

However there has been code posted by ghudson called mousetrap, and I think the only other option is the dll file or a drastic measure is I heard somewhere that you can disable the mousewheel completely via the windows registry (This would disable it for all programs though).

Anyway I hope you find the solution you are looking for.

Good Luck

Andy

 

[CarlyS]

Andy,
Thank you so much for all your help and patience with my questions!

Carly