Completely disable a handsontable

To fully "disable" a Handsontable I have done the following:

hot.updateSettings({
    readOnly: true, // make table cells read-only
    contextMenu: false, // disable context menu to change things
    disableVisualSelection: true, // prevent user from visually selecting
    manualColumnResize: false, // prevent dragging to resize columns
    manualRowResize: false, // prevent dragging to resize rows
    comments: false // prevent editing of comments
});

You can do this using the updateSettings

var hot = $("#exampleGrid").handsontable('getInstance');
hot.updateSettings({
        readOnly: true
    });

Check the following link: http://jsfiddle.net/Hn3Zv/