Using my script, the numbers will change every 2 seconds. If you do nothing and watch the numbers, the digits to the left of the decimal should increase by approximately 2 each cycle. If you type, scroll, whatever, the number should shrink (possibly even a 0 to the left of the decimal)
What version of osx are you using? On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Richmond Mathewson < [email protected]> wrote: > I have just tried this: > > 1. When the stack is frontMost it puts > > a large digit number (5-8 after the decimal point) into the field at all > sorts of > intervals. > > There is no obvious connexion between any of these numbers and the keys I > am currently bashing on > to type this message, nor when I use the scroll wheel on my mouse, > > numbers are changing even when I am doing nothing beyod sitting here with > my mouth open > watching the stack and wondering how those numbers can be shown to have > any direct > correspondence with any user input. > > 2. Certainly the stack is picking something up, but if it is detecting > scroll activity it is not doing it > in any obviously useful fashion. > > Richmond. > > On 12/25/16 5:56 pm, Mike Bonner wrote: > >> I have an answer.. >> >> Heres a sample script: >> local sRunning >> >> on mouseUp >> if sRunning is empty then put false into sRunning >> put not sRunning into sRunning >> loopit >> end mouseUp >> >> command loopit >> if sRunning then >> put the last word of (shell("ioreg -c IOHIDSystem |grep Idle")) into tIdle >> put tIdle / 1000000000 into field 1 >> send "loopit" to me in 2 sec >> end if >> end loopit >> >> The script is in a button, and I have a single field on the card. The >> math >> is done to convert to seconds of idle. >> >> The are only 2 disclaimers here. First is that the value returned pre >> 10.3 >> is hex so you'd have to handle that if you have an earlier osx. 10.3 and >> after this solution should work fine. >> >> The second issue is is that on mac 10.12, the idle time won't update on >> typing. Its an osx issue for that specific version, but worst case you >> already have a method to track keypresses. >> >> On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Paul Dupuis <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> On 12/25/2016 10:05 AM, Terry Vogelaar wrote: >>> >>>> So it starts to become clear that it might not be possible to do what I >>>> >>> want. Although I hope to be wrong about that. >>> >>> I think it is very unlikely you can do this in LC - without externals or >>> LCB widgets from "infinite Livecode". >>> >>> The active mouse and keyboard drivers capture events from these devices >>> and pass that information to the operating system, which massages the >>> data and passed a higher level of events on to the active application, >>> which looks for such events and handles them. In the case of the >>> LiveCode engine - or any app built on the LC engine - that is executing >>> applicable messages for your scripts to handle. >>> >>> Most productivity tracking software works by effectively inserting code >>> into where the device drivers meet the operating system, so that mouse >>> and keyboard events are captured by the productivity app's as well as >>> being sent by the OS to the active application as normal. >>> >>> Using LCB and LC9.0 you might be able to write an LCB widget that does >>> this, but I am not familiar enough with current OSX APIs for event >>> capture or drivers under OSX to or the state of work in LC9.0 on >>> integrating OS API calls to say for sure. >>> >>> You are unlikely to be able to do what you want in LiveCode script alone. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
