Detect User Idle State

[daniel...@gmail.com]

Our app needs to detect whether or not the user's active. Here's the native Windows API we call in the current version of the app:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646302(v=vs.85).aspx

We want to make my app cross-platform and we're considering node-webkit as a way to make that happen. Is there a way to detect the user's idle state in node-webkit?

[Laszlo Z. Antal]

Hi,

If you need to detect idle "only" in node-webkit then just add event listener for mouse move and keyup and set isUserIdle = false every time they fire. Add a setInterval to check for that variable being false as often as you need it. 

I used it to do animation in one of my game to tell the player to hurry :)

Hope it helps 

Laszlo

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[daniel...@gmail.com]

I mean idle like this: http://developer.chrome.com/apps/idle.html

[grze...@gmail.com]

Try to find some topics before posting another one:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/node-webkit/NgizskQ74Xo

[Shaun Clark]

I would also really like this feature, I noticed that their is a keypress npm module, I'm not sure if it does system wide events or not, I can't get raw mode to work to test it.