Disabling mouse and keyboard pdf navigation.

Hi all,
Im wanting to create a closed pdf presentation/process app that has the keyboard and mouse scroll navigation disabled. Is this doable? Ive created the doc flow with the buttons/links in indesign but I'm worried that the enduser might accidentally scroll with their mouse and get lost in the process that the document covers.
I've read mixed reports that I can do this using 3rd party software but after hours of searching Ive hit a dead end.
Any help or work arounds would be much appreciated
Thanks
Phil

No commercial PDF apps have that feature, so you would probably need to write your own 'wrapper' for Adobe Reader using VB or C (and the Acrobat SDK). The wrapper program could prevent mouse/key events from passing through to the child application, force full-screen mode, etc.

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