Aha.
On 12/25/16 6:42 pm, Mike Bonner wrote:
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)
The problem lies in the word "whatever".
A scroll may shrink the number; so may other things; and that's the rub.
I've got a pain in my stomach:
1. Wind?
2. Acidity?
3. Swallowed a paperclip?
The pain is not sufficient in and of itself to work out what the cause
of the pain is.
What version of osx are you using?
I'm using Mac OS 10.7.5
Richmond.
On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Richmond Mathewson <
richmondmathew...@gmail.com> 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 <p...@researchware.com>
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.
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