disable keys while sendkeys?

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Is it possible to disable all, or most keys out for a short time(1 sec)?

I am using a sendkeys statement, and wonder if disabling key strokes, will disable the sendkeys too.



I overcame the pesky focus problem with a simple do event.
I want to disable key input, during this procedure:

do
dim appid as integer
appid = shell("app.exe", 1)
appactivate appid
sendkeys "{tab}yup!{enter}{F4}"
exit do
loop

Is much smaller and actually more effective than the Dan Appleman reference for putfocus/setfocus in "Guide to the Win32 API". Thanks Balena!




PS For the benefit of other beginers, to activate an already running application and sendkeys to it, just omit the shell above.
For example:
do
appactivate appid
sendkeys "blah"
exit do
loop

focus returns to app that sent the keys.