Disabling Keyboard keys

I want to lock few Keyboard keys - Hot Keys, Print Screen, Ctrl - C, Escape in the client side. The client will view only JSP pages. What should I do?

Hi
can anyone tell me how to disable the keyboard in windows nt/xp temporarily....i need it for a remote desktop application i am developing...
tia,
- nitin

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how to disable a keyboard key control in listview ?
example
page down
Thank's

Register an event filter and consume the event before it gets processed by the list view. Specifically for page down it can look like this:
listView.addEventFilter(KeyEvent.ANY, new EventHandler<KeyEvent>() {
    @Override public void handle(KeyEvent event) {
        if (event.getCode() == KeyCode.PAGE_DOWN) {
            event.consume();

How to disable certain keys in Macbook's keyboard

How to disable certain keys in Macbook's keyboard? My keyboard is break down. It always type "\" key and disturb me!
Dealer says internal keyboard need cost $120 to replace.
So, I think can i disable "\" key? i don't want to disable keyboard, just \" key.
Thanks for help!

This posting shows how to remove a default Action;
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=57&threadID=657819

Disable certain keys on keyboard

hello,
I am trying to disable numerous keys within the movie at all
times can anyone help me with this please.
thanks
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How about disabling the QUOTE key - that is the shifted one " ?
I added an additional test to the keydownscript to test for keyCode = 39 but that kills both the single and double quote:
the keydownscript = "if "&QUOTE&notWanted&QUOTE& contains the key OR the keyCode = 39 then stopEvent"
I am trying to stop my assistants from entering the " in a multiple choice question because it messages up the list I am using to store them. Instead I want them to use the single '
How can I stop the " but allow ' ?
I'm stumped, can someone please help - thank you!
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Disabling windows key on keyboard?

any idea on how to disable the windows key using java code?

Came across a relevant article looking for something else:
[Disable Windows key registry policy setting|http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa460734.aspx]
[Access registry from Java|http://lenkite.blogspot.com/2008/05/access-windows-registry-using-java.html]
- you need to be an admin
- most of the settings are better accomplished by removing the parts from your OS image
- if you're not creating an embedded system which sole purpose is to run your program, you've no business messing with the Windows key policy settings.
(not having in Windows XP box to play with at home, can't verify if it works)

How can I disable a key through software?

A friend of mine spilt water on her keyboard. As a result, her forward slash key frequently spams and makes typing difficult. I used a program to remap the forward slash key to a forward delete key, but that has also caused problems. What I'm looking for is a program that will allow me to completely disable a key.
I should note, I've used KeyRemap4Macbook and I've also developed my own code, which disables the key on Cocoa applications. However, the key still spams on applications like Microsoft Word.
Her Macbook is more than a year old, and she can't afford to buy a new one.
Any suggestions?

Liquid in a physical keyboard is great trouble. You may worsen state if you continue to use it like this, make the effort to change it. It is not cheap, but may prove cheaper than damage the whole computer.

Keyboard keys are not working

Im on mac OS X 10.6.8 several keyboard keys are not working. For instance the at symbol is not working or question mark and random other punctuation keys. The problem started after running some code from terminal to trun off mouse acceleration and then installing a plug-in to control more accurately the mouse funtions. Ive since uninstalled the plug in and disabled the adjustment in terminal. Ive checked all the normal keyboard funcions to make sure settings were not funky. When I log out and log in as a differnt user the problem with the keyboard is fixed. Someone please help
Code I ran
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1
http://www.lockergnome.com/osx/2011/07/13/how-to-turn-off-mouse-acceleration-in- os-x/

Hello lindzthecreator,
I suggest this part of the article named One or more keys on the keyboard do not respond found here http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1381
Some keys don't work as expected
From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
From the View menu, choose Speech.
Click the Text to Speech tab.
If "Speak selected text when the key is pressed" is enabled, the key or key combination set to speak text cannot be used for other purposes or used to type text--click Set Key and change it to a less-commonly used key combination (try to use modifier keys such as Shift, Command, Option, and Control). Or, disable the "Speak selected text when the key is pressed" option.
Click the Universal Access pane in System Preferences, click the Keyboard tab.
Make sure that Slow Keys is turned off. With Slow Keys on, you need to press a key for a longer period of time for it to be recognized.
In the Universal Access pane, click the Mouse tab, and make sure Mouse Keys is turned off. With Mouse Keys enabled, you cannot use the Numeric Keypad to enter numbers--instead the keypad moves the pointer (cursor). (There is an option to enable Mouse Keys with five presses of the Option key; you may want to turn that option off to avoid accidentally enabling it.) If Mouse Keys is enabled and you are using a keyboard with no numeric keypad or Num Lock function, see Unable to type while Mouse Keys is enabled in Mac OS X.
If the function keys on the top row of the keyboard are not working as expected, see Mac OS X: How to change the behavior of function keys.
If the issue persists, use Keyboard Viewer to help isolate the issue:
Click the Language & Text pane (Mac OS X v10.6) or International pane (Mac OS X v10.5.8 or earlier) in System Preferences.
Click the Input Sources tab (or Input Menu tab in Mac OS X 10.5.8 or earlier).
Click the Keyboard & Character Viewer "On" checkbox to select it (click the Keyboard Viewer "On" checkbox in Mac OS X 10.5.8 or earlier).
From the Input (flag) menu, choose Show Keyboard Viewer.
If the keyboard is connected and detected by Mac OS X, the keys you type will highlight in the Keyboard Viewer window. Open TextEdit (or any text application), and try to type something using the keys that were previously not responding to see if they highlight in Keyboard Viewer.
Start from the Mac OS X Install Disc, choose Terminal from the Utilities menu and test the keys which were previously not working. If the keys work while started from the Install disc, then the keyboard itself is working correctly. Use Mac OS X: How to troubleshoot a software issue to isolate the software issue that may be causing the keys to not respond.
All the very best,
Sterling

Disable Function Key F3 in Internet Explorer

I would like to disable function keys F1 and F3 while playing
my flash movie in internet explorer. I am using these keys within
Flash to do some actions.
I got the script working for Function Key F1 using the
following script
<script language="javascript">
document.onhelp = function() {return(false);}
window.onhelp = function() {return(false);}
</script>
But unable to make it to work for function key F3.
Thanks in advance,
Desmond

Hi des_shun, I have workaround for this issue.
First thing we have to do is disable keyboard event for F3 key on HTML document so that even if focus is on html document, default Search functionality will not popup. Next thing is, flash must contain KeyboardEvent listener for keyboard response. This is where we will keep our custom F3 functionality. This setting works well on Chrome & FireFox.
Now IE thing.
The prolem with IE is that if any one of F3, F5, F6,F7 & F11 key is pressed, when the focus is on flash movie it directly executes the default browser functions like searching, refreshing etc never allowing flash to execute its keyeventlistener. But if focus is on document body, then F3 and other keys work fine.
Here is the catch.
All we have to do is whenever focus is shifted to flash, we should revert that focus to document body.
Here is how we can do this.
Capture the MouseClick event in your flash movie. Then in this mouseclick event handler, call javascript function to change focus to document again. Below is the sample code.
//Flash Code
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,mClick);
function mClick(event:MouseEvent)
          ExternalInterface.call("changeFocus");
// Javascript Code
<script type="text/javascript"</script>
          function changeFocus()
                         document.body.focus();
    </script>
Thats it!

Disable Reply All button via Group Policy without disabling keyboard shortcut

At my organization, we've used Group Policy to disable the Reply to All button in Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010. When you use the setting in the ADM files for the respective versions of Office to disable a Command bar ID, the Reply to All button is disabled,
however they keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + Shift + R) is still active. This forces our users to think a bit more before using the Reply All function.
The keyboard shortcut continues to work, because there's a separate setting to disable the keyboard shortcuts. The same is true for Office 2013's GP templates, however, it does not function as expected.
When I use the Office 2013 admin templates and disable command bar ID 355 (Reply All), it disables the button as expected, however it also disables the keyboard shortcut for Reply All without actually setting it as disabled in the disable shortcut keys.
Has anyone had success disabling a command bar ID without disabling the associated shortcut keys? If so, how did you do it?

Hi,
This issue has been fixed by this hotfix:
Hotfix 2881040 for Outlook 2013 June 10, 2014 (Outlook-x-none.msp)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2881040
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Cutomization - Disable shortcut keys

We are working in an enterprise environment, where our requiement is to give Customize Firefox to the users. Only Address Bar visible to the user.
1- Hide Menus. (Task Done)
2- Icon along the Address bar. (Task Done)
3- Disable all Shortcut keys. (Partial Done)
4- Disable all commands of about (i.e about:config)
I have explored about the disabling of shortcut key, it cannot be done through user prefences js file as I did for Task 1 & 2. We can to do with xul programming as I read. We dont want to use the Third party Extensions as for this we have to do for each user. We want to do change in the base file from where user profile generated.
I have disabled the shortcut keys by editing in the [ C:\%Firefox Dir%\omni.ja\chrome\browser\content\browser\browser.xul ]
just by adding disbaled = "true" attribute
[<key id="key_openAddons" key="&addons.commandkey;" command="Tools:Addons" disabled="true" modifiers="accel,shift"/>
<menuitem id="menu_openAddons" label="&addons.label;" accesskey="&addons.accesskey;" disabled="true" key="key_openAddons" command="Tools:Addons"/>]
The Shortcut key disabled but only for the administrator but not work for the normal users whose menu disabled or not.
No issue for Admin user ethier shortcut disabled but not rest features.
Please help in this regard. Either any other file which create the user profile and for point no 4. or How to resolve this issue.

Looking for an alternate method to do this without an event structure. My implementation uses a state machine with while loops, and is setup to only respond to specific keystrokes/mouse clicks, at specific times. When in these states, it waits for the user to interract, and can not proceed until they do (by either progressing with the sequence, or aborting it).
When I implement the method provided, it does work when it is in the state that expects F1, but if the user presses F1 at any other time, the event is triggered, and the VI goes into an invalid state (locks up). I do inderstand that normally an event structure would be the correct implementation for keyboard inputs, but the application needs to respond in different ways depending on the user input, and needs to ignore all user input at other times. I couldn't figure out a practical way to ignore events while in certain states, so I implemented the statem machine instead.
Any ideas? Working in LV 2013. Thanks in advance.
GSinMN

How to disable repeating keys

I need to accent some characters when typing in French. According to what I read, repeat keys should no longer work in Mountain Lion, except for asterisks and dots etc. In theory I should be able, by holding down the letter on the keyboard, to get a pop-up panel of possible accents to use. But I am getting repeat keys instead. I have tried using Lion Tweaks to use the 'disable repeating keys' function and although I get the message that is has been done, it hasn't. Can anyone help?

I can't explain why you are not getting the accents, but you can still use the key-chords to type accented characters.
Press Option (alt) + Accent key, release the keys, then press the letter. For example, press Option-i, then o to get ô.
If you have the input menu active, you can use the Keyboard Viewer to see the Accent keys. Open the viewer and press the Option key. The Orange highlighted keys will display the accents under them.

Disabling keyboard shortcuts in Flash CC

From looking at past threads, it appears that Flash users were once able to disable keyboard shortcuts in the Flash player window when testing their programs. This option seems to have gone away in Flash CC (or has hidden itself very well). This is problematic for me since I'm relying on key presses to dictate which frames my program goes to, but can't test to see if things are working properly without disabling Flash player shortcuts first. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem?

ned is correct. that feature (unfortunately) was 'deprecated' in flash pro cc, http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flash/cs/using/WS3e7c64e37a1d85e1e229110db38dec34-7fc2a.html (the 'The Test Movie command and keyboard controls' section).
in addition to neds suggestion, another poor option is to test in your browser.

How to disable keyboard illumination

I really like Expose. I really don't care for keyboard illumination. When I try to use the Expose keys (F9 and F10) I affect the keyboard illumination, but do not trigger Expose.
How can I disable keyboard illumination to allow me to use those keys for Expose.
Yes, I know that I can Function-F9 and Function-F10, but I'd rather have a single keystroke.
I've turned off keyboard illumination in the Keyboard system pref, but it still won't let me use those Expose keys.
Clues?
TIA -

I really appreciate all the help you folks have put in here.
It seems that the Function key behaviors I loved so much on my G4 PowerBook are just hosed forever with the oh-so-nifty backlighting on the MacBook Pro.
It's kinda sad, because Expose is really useful and the backlit keyboard, while I'm sure it makes for an eye-catching demo, is at the edge of useless for touch typists.
Maybe Apple can be persuaded to reconsider, maybe flipping Expose and the backlit so that Expose is the one-key functionality and backlight controls will require the multi-key contortions.
Hey, I can dream, can't I?
I was going to post the suggestion to feedback.apple.com, but it looks like feedback is 404....

How can we disable keyboard shortcuts on webpages?

I am using the add-on firemacs, which allows us to edit text with emacs key-bindings.
The problem is: some key-bindings (set by firemacs) are overwritten at several webpages (e.g. Evernote and StackExchange).
For example, Ctrl-b moves normally the text cursor to the previous character in a textarea. But in the textarea at any site of StackExchange, Ctrl-b creates `**strong text**`.
Is it possible to disable keyboard shortcuts without disabling shortcuts for firemacs?
The trivial solution is to disable JavaScript. But I want to know a possibility of other solutions.

StackExchange links to a bunch of other sites, so I looked at the superuser.com site. The specific script that creates the interactive features of the editor is http://cdn.sstatic.net/Js/wmd.en.js. It's minified so I can't figure out the call needed to remove the keypress event listener. (Actually, I'm not sure I could figure it out even with the full source, as I don't use jQuery.) Maybe it's a question for StackOverflow?

The "alt, ctrl and shift" on the left side of my keyboard keys integrated notebook did not work. What should I do?

The "alt, ctrl and shift" on the left side of my keyboard keys integrated notebook did not work. What should I do?

Hi Luis Fernando Garcia,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. This article has troubleshooting for keys not working on your keyboard:
One or more keys on the keyboard do not respond
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1381
Some keys don't work as expected
From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
From the View menu, choose Speech.
Click the Text to Speech tab.
If "Speak selected text when the key is pressed" is enabled, the key or key combination set to speak text cannot be used for other purposes or used to type text--click Set Key and change it to a less-commonly used key combination (try to use modifier keys such as Shift, Command, Option, and Control). Or, disable the "Speak selected text when the key is pressed" option.
Click the Universal Access pane in System Preferences, click the Keyboard tab.
Make sure that Slow Keys is turned off. With Slow Keys on, you need to press a key for a longer period of time for it to be recognized.
In the Universal Access pane, click the Mouse tab, and make sureMouse Keys is turned off. With Mouse Keys enabled, you cannot use the Numeric Keypad to enter numbers--instead the keypad moves the pointer (cursor). (There is an option to enable Mouse Keys with five presses of the Option key; you may want to turn that option off to avoid accidentally enabling it.) If Mouse Keys is enabled and you are using a keyboard with no numeric keypad or Num Lock function, seeUnable to type while Mouse Keys is enabled in Mac OS X.
If the function keys on the top row of the keyboard are not working as expected, see Mac OS X: How to change the behavior of function keys.
If the issue persists, use Keyboard Viewer to help isolate the issue:
Click the Language & Text pane (Mac OS X v10.6) or International pane (Mac OS X v10.5.8 or earlier) in System Preferences.
Click the Input Sources tab (or Input Menu tab in Mac OS X 10.5.8 or earlier).
Click the Keyboard & Character Viewer "On" checkbox to select it (click the Keyboard Viewer "On" checkbox in Mac OS X 10.5.8 or earlier).
From the Input (flag) menu, choose Show Keyboard Viewer.
If the keyboard is connected and detected by Mac OS X, the keys you type will highlight in the Keyboard Viewer window. Open TextEdit (or any text application), and try to type something using the keys that were previously not responding to see if they highlight in Keyboard Viewer.
Cheers,
- Ari

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