Disable a whole activity from user action

Question

Is there a simple way to disable a user interacting with an activity. To be done when there is an action running (and a spinning progress bar in the title bar)

EDIT:

Answer 1

If you need to disable event processing for a period of time (for instance, while you run an animation, show a waiting dialog), you can override the activity's dispatch functions.

To disable touch/clicks on any buttons, add these members/functions to your activity:

protected boolean enabled = true;

public void enable(boolean b) {
    enabled = b;
}

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
    return enabled ? 
        super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev) : 
        true;        
}

Then just call enable(true/false) when you need to disable and enable the activity's normal event handling.