How to block mouse without blocking keyboard?

[Yurgenz]

Hi all.
I need to block the mouse without blocking the keyboard in a cross-platform GUI application (Windows, Linux/Debian). The program has many forms and buttons, and creating a handler for each one is too labor-intensive. Is there a way to block the mouse using Lazarus' built-in tools, rather than through the operating system?

[jamie]

 U can capture and by pass the mouse messages but u will still see the pointer

[Yurgenz]

U can capture and by pass the mouse messages but u will still see the pointer

Pointer is no problem - Screen.Cursor := crNone;
How can I capture mouse messages for all application?

[Martin_fr]

Capture does only work if the button is down (at least on Windows / as documented on msdn).

Maybe, if you put a transparent form on top of everything? Never tried, don't know.

[Yurgenz]

Capture does only work if the button is down (at least on Windows / as documented on msdn).

Maybe, if you put a transparent form on top of everything? Never tried, don't know.

Alas! I thought about using a transparent form, but it would interfere with the Z-Order of the forms, which is important to me. I also considered using a transparent panel on the form, but I couldn't manage to make the panel transparent.