Ignore mouse input/animations

I would like to ignore all mouse input, so that I can ignore all animations (which start by a pressed mouse button).

I have tried the following:

start of layout

*choose object mousekeyboard*, but no option to ignore mouse-input there, as action.

Use a global variable as a toggle and check whether it is activated or not. You can toggle it with events, key press or whatever whenever you want the stuff to ignore mouse.

+'IgnoreMouse' = 0

+Mouse button is pressed

blah blah

Use a global variable as a toggle and check whether it is activated or not. You can toggle it with events, key press or whatever whenever you want the stuff to ignore mouse.

+'IgnoreMouse' = 0

+Mouse button is pressed

>blah blah

But I have no means to de-activate the mouse-button-control.

Perhaps I don't see what you mean.

When mouse button is pressed, an animation starts.

At a certain point I want to ignore key presses (or: not start animations).

Both options (ignore mouse-buttons, don't start any animation) are not present in the event's action list.

Mipey's suggestion would work, change IgnoreMouse to 1 and the event stops running. Or, put all the events in a group, and disable the group when you want the events to stop running.

Couldn't you just use "animation is playing" inverted, along with the on click event in the condition?

So it would be like:

MouseKeyboard: On Left mouse button Clicked

Sprite: Animation "Default" is not playing

SpriteSet animation to "Default"

Thanks for the suggestions. I've tried it out.