you might want a general purpose system where you could specify what is to
be considered in determining idleness. For example, do you check:
-- only clicking (on the grounds that someone could be moving the mouse
around, for example to check tooltips or just aimlessly, but that they are
idle of they aren't selecting/dragging etc.
-- mouse movements
--keystrokes (which ones?)
--data flow from/to server
--playing videos or sounds
--playing loaded swfs or subclips
etc.
seems to beg for some kind of observer or broadcaster pattern where you
subscribe your idel detector to various events
Millie Niss
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From: "Ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Best way to detect an idle user?
Is it possible for you to decide wether a user is idle or not, by judging
his mouse movements? Or is it required to actually measure the usage of
particular elements? If you can suffice with the movement, it might be
enough to create a seperate 'idle checking' class which either listens to
mousemove events of for even less overhead, checks the mouse coordinates
at
given intervals. Then say after e.g. 3 check intervals if the coords are
still the same, assume the user is inactive.
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Verzonden: donderdag 9 november 2006 22:45
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Onderwerp: [Flashcoders] Best way to detect an idle user?
My application starts with a user login/authentication. I want to
implement an idle user process that logs the user out after X amount of
time of no activity.
The most obvious way I can think to do this is to start an interval
timer, and keep reseting it any time a widget is used. That means
adding a reset-function call to every component event handler, plus
adding event handlers for many components that otherwise don't have
relevant events.
Does anyone have a more clever way of handling this?
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