Block input for a certain time

[ahkfan]

Please help me with a code which would block all keyboard and mouse input for a certain amount of time (let's say 20 seconds) and preferably showing some gif with progress bar or a countdown timer.

For a start, here's code which blocks input until the word test is entered.

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BlockInput,On
Loop
{
Input,var,C L1
ToolTip % var
If var=test
	Break
}
BlockInput,Off
ExitApp

[BoBo]

Once you're pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del you can stop that script anyway, so what?!

[ahkfan]

That's not for security. In my case It's to prevent user from interaction with freshly launched browser while it loads rss feeds. It takes about 15-20 seconds, so I want to be sure that the user starts work when everything's ready. The user is with special needs so it's hard to rely on his understanding/remembering of 'wait 20 seconds before you start' rule.

[ahkfan]

Ok, I've found a workaround solution:
Start browser and mpc-hc player from a batch file with path to progress_bar.gif as an argument to mpc-hc with 'close on end' and fullscreen options preset.

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start "" "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
start "" "C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\mpc-hc64.exe" "c:\Users\username\Downloads\progress_bar.gif"

But If someone colud make an actual AHK script doing things I described in the initial post, it would be awesome.