garzj / windows-stylus-block-input

A windows service that blocks other user input while a pen is used.

windows-stylus-block-input

A windows service that blocks other user input while a pen is used.

Prerequesites

• MinGW + make
  Best installed with Chocolatey: choco install mingw make -y
• Windows SDK -> Windows App Certification Kit
  Make sure you add it to your PATH, it's normally in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\App Certification Kit"
• WiX Toolset (to create the installer)
  This should also be added to your PATH: %wix%\bin

Certificates

Note that in order for the program to receive global input messages, it must be digitally signed with a trusted certificate for Windows to grant it UIAccess.

There's already a nice pregenerated certificate in the repository, but if you don't trust it, you can run make cert-regen to generate your own.

Building

Building the executable

Just type make and the program will automatically be compiled, signed and saved into a new build directory.

If you want to execute the program directly, you'll have to run make uiaccess as administrator first and potentially restart your computer. This will try to install the certificate and set a registry entry disabling EnableSecureUIAPaths, because Windows by default doesn't grant UIAccess to programs in insecure locations.

Building the installer

You can skip the previous step, if you just run make installer to build a standalone .msi package (into installer/).

After installing the package, the app will automatically start in the background everytime you login until you uninstall it again.