I poll the active window every 5 seconds and if it is the same then I increment the time spent on it. I am assuming here, of course, that if someone steps out of the machine there is either screensaver is on or it is locked. When any one of these two are true, there is no activewindow.
As I continue to use (and probably get some feedback from others too), I will continue to enhance the application. Thank you for your interest Joseph On Sep 1, 4:09 am, "Dan Eloff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I made something along these lines a long time ago with C# and access > (yuck!), cephire, you may find the following function useful. I used > it to detect when I had walked away from the computer. > > http://dataerror.blogspot.com/2005/02/detect-windows-idle-time.html > > I think the test I used is if the time since last input is > update > interval, then I would skip the update and record the current time - > last input time as the start of when I left the computer. > > -Dan > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Michael Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That is pretty cool. Does it have support for abandoning my computer > > to do something else. Or will it keep logging that time towards that > > app? > > Michael Stephens > > > Electrical Engineering Graduate Student > > University of Wyoming > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:23 AM, cephire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> All: > >> I got my first IronPython application working. This is a simple > >> application I wrote to help myself track time that I spend in various > >> application. > > >> If you're interested download the package from: > >>http://mysecs.googlecode.com/files/mySecs_0.1.zip > >> Extract the files to a directory and execute mysecs.exe. It will start > >> to capture time details (every 5 seconds). One can refersh and also > >> download details into a csv file. > > >> Source is found in:http://code.google.com/p/mysecs/source/browse/ > > >> I use Visual Studio Integration (http://www.izume.com/2007/10/13/ > >> integrating-ironpython-with-visual-studio-2005) > > >> Feel free to comment on the code, design. If there is a better way of > >> doing things, please let me know. > > >> Thank you, > >> Joseph > >>http://www.jjude.com|http://twitter.com/jjude > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Users mailing list > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com- > Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
