that shoulda been schtasks.exe On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this a windows only app? If so I have the beginnings of an idea. The > short version is inserting a scheduled task using schtask.exe that only > fires after a period of idle. The task could be to simply write the time > to a file. Perhaps after a couple of minutes of idle. Then you can have > your app check that file, and do the math to figure out how long the user > has been active since the last idle write. If this works, it would remove > the need for checking the keys down, or scrolling or anything of that > nature. > > Not sure yet if it will work, but I'll experiment some. > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Terry Vogelaar <tvogel...@de-mare.nl> > wrote: > >> Thank you, Craig and Mike, for your responses. But the problem with the >> rawKeyDown message is that the mouse needs to be in the LiveCode window. I >> can scroll in my web browser all day and LiveCode wouldn’t ever notice. So >> unfortunately this is not what I’m looking for. >> >> Doing a feature request for a rawkeysdown function sounds like a good >> idea. >> >> Maybe there is something to the idea of hooking in to the system timer. >> Although I wouldn’t know how to do that either. >> >> >> With kind regards, >> Terry Vogelaar >> >> > Op 23 dec. 2016, om 12:00 heeft use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com >> het volgende geschreven: >> > >> > From: dunbarx <dunb...@aol.com <mailto:dunb...@aol.com>> >> > >> > Hi. >> > >> > The "rawKeyDown" message can detect scrollWheel activity. The results >> are: >> > >> > 65308 for a down scroll >> > 65309 for an up scroll. >> > >> > Craig Newman >> > ------------------------------ >> > >> > From: Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com <mailto:bonnm...@gmail.com>> >> > >> > I think the scroll wheel sends arrow keys, but since there isn't a >> > "rawkeysdown()" function to match the keysdown() function it would >> require >> > either an external or the function to be added with livecode builder. At >> > which point I wonder.. Is there a way to hook in to the system timer? >> (the >> > one that decides if the screensaver/sleep mode should activate.) >> > >> > No clue how to access such a thing. (Could go with the simple method and >> > request a rawkeysdown() feature) >> > ------------------------------ >> > >> > Actually, nevermind, the scroll wheel on my system doesn't trigger an >> arrow >> > key press, but the arrowkeys are indeed picked up by keysdown. My >> > apologies. :) >> > >> > ------------------------------ >> > >> > From: dunbarx <dunb...@aol.com <mailto:dunb...@aol.com>> >> > >> > I assume this discussion is still intact. >> > >> > The "rawkeyDown" message may be trapped as follows: >> > >> > on rawkeydown tkey >> > if tkey = 65308 then doScrollDownStuff >> > else doScrollUpStuff >> > end rawkeydown >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
