Disable the mouse cursor within a program

I'm creating a text adventure and I need to completely disable the mouse cursor. Not just hide it, although I already know how to do that, but disable it completely so that you must use Alt-Tab or a built-in quit button to stop. The main reason for this is because people can scroll with the mouse cursor and I need to disable that, I thought about canceling MouseEvents when they're fired but I couldn't get it to work (the listener that is.)

If someone knows how then please speak up and tell me! :)

EDIT: Whoops, I forgot my code. Here is my Console class. This is started by another class with new Console();

EDIT 2: Here are some snippets of me trying to create an invisible cursor and a mouse listener. The first one works, but the latter does not.

// Invisible cursor
Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
Point hotSpot = new Point(0,0);
BufferedImage cursorImage = new BufferedImage(1, 1, BufferedImage.TRANSLUCENT); 
Cursor invisibleCursor = toolkit.createCustomCursor(cursorImage, hotSpot, "InvisibleCursor");        
frame.setCursor(invisibleCursor);

// Adding mouse listener
frame.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() { 
      public void mousePressed(MouseEvent me) { 
        System.out.println(me); 
      } 
});

EDIT 3: To elaborate on the mouse listener it simply does not work. It doesn't print anything.

Solution

If you just want to prevent users from seeing old text, remove the old text from the JTextArea.

The easiest way to do it is to leave the JTextArea in a JScrollPane, and keep track of the lines yourself:

private static final int MAX_VISIBLE_LINES = 12;

private final Deque<String> lines = new LinkedList<>();

void appendLine(String line,
                JTextArea textArea) {

    lines.addLast(line);
    if (lines.size() > MAX_VISIBLE_LINES) {
        lines.removeFirst();
    }

    String text = String.join("\n", lines);
    textArea.setText(text);

    textArea.setCaretPosition(text.length());
    try {
        textArea.scrollRectToVisible(
            textArea.modelToView(text.length()));
    } catch (BadLocationException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
}

Trying to commandeer the mouse on a multitasking desktop is just going to make users angry. Would you want an application preventing you from reading your e-mail?

Update:

If you want to base the number of lines of text on the JTextArea’s current height, use the JTextArea’s font metrics. I assume you don’t need to get it exactly right and it’s okay if the number is off by one or two lines. (To account for things like line wrapping would be considerably more difficult.)

private final Deque<String> lines = new LinkedList<>();

void appendLine(String line,
                JTextArea textArea) {

    FontMetrics metrics = textArea.getFontMetrics(textArea.getFont());

    JViewport viewport = (JViewport) textArea.getParent();
    int visibleLineCount = viewport.getExtentSize().height / metrics.getHeight();

    lines.addLast(line);
    while (lines.size() > visibleLineCount) {
        lines.removeFirst();
    }

    String text = String.join("\n", lines);
    textArea.setText(text);

    textArea.setCaretPosition(text.length());
    try {
        textArea.scrollRectToVisible(
            textArea.modelToView(text.length()));
    } catch (BadLocationException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
}