Performing action when application idle for x minutes
Jon Buckheit
completely idle for x (user-defined) minutes, but am having problems. I
tried to use Application.OnIdle (to compare Now to an idle counter) and
Application.OnMessage (to set the idle counter to Now) but did not get
reliable results. Has anyone done this? Thanks!
Daniel J. Wojcik
"Jon Buckheit" <jonbu...@home.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, I am trying to program a Delphi application to do something when it is
> completely idle for x (user-defined) minutes, but am having problems. I
> tried to use Application.OnIdle (to compare Now to an idle counter) and
I'd use a TTimer and check for (lack of) keyboard and mouse messages to
indicate idleness.
A component I wrote does this, if you want to take a peek:
Alexander
<woj...@genjerdan.com> wrote:
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>"Jon Buckheit" <jonbu...@home.com> wrote in message
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>> Hi, I am trying to program a Delphi application to do something when it is
>> completely idle for x (user-defined) minutes, but am having problems. I
>> tried to use Application.OnIdle (to compare Now to an idle counter) and
>[...]
>
>I'd use a TTimer and check for (lack of) keyboard and mouse messages to
>indicate idleness.
>
>A component I wrote does this, if you want to take a peek:
>
>http://www.genjerdan.com/bfp/appkiller.htm
Depending on what the app does, you might also want to set a flag if
the program is busy with non-user related tasks.